Regarding Dhyanjyoti's e-mail:
Dhyanjyoti highlights critical issues (excellent job Dhyanjyoti!)
(a) (i) If we can put together a book of Grammar first!
(ii) A second book on vocabulary! Do you know that volumes of
vocabulary used in Kamrupi scriptures are still spoken greater Kamrupi
land including Cooch Behar?
(iii) A newspaper has started from Nalbari (taahaar nalbaari graam
shrotabya asankhyata
from a Kamrupi Wisdom)
(b) Insult/ridicule Kamrupi (people) have been serious concern, and
threat to Kamrupi language too. Since sources of insult/ridicule roots
out from a "geographical indication" (Ahom land) please think what is
best to terminate roots and post to thread
"Kamrupi concern over Ahom innovation"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/4679
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Regarding Dilip Deka's e-mail:
It is hard to predict, but at least over five-million.
If we do Item (a)(i) & (ii) and also we can publish a collection of
Kamrupi wisdom, Kamrupi people will come forward to introduce "I am
Kamrupi"
I have a Kamrupi Wisdom that talks of Beula-satra in yog-maaya-dhaam
but do you know that there is a place called yog-maaya-dhaam in present
Goalpara?
- satra meaning sacrifices as well in Kamrupi.
So don't we see where a root of Kamrupi heredity (Beula-Lakhindar,
Shanda) were spred?
See image for present-perfect usage in Kamrupi
(I have a audio-tape conversation of Pratima Barua, when I have times I
will convert to MP3 and post - 1st two sentences from audio).
http://deka7kl.googlepages.com/krb.jpg
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[http://deka7kl.googlepages.com/krb.jpg]
Don't we see who holded Kamrupi grammar tight until her last breathe?
So why do we mess-up grammar; why do we import text-book words mix
Kamrupi?
As highlighted before, this grammar is unique to Kamrupi.
Kamrupi/Goalparia lokageet need it; over 95% of the hymns found in all
yesteryear Kamrupi scriptures are composed using this grammar; people
still speak using this grammar.
Are we ashemed to preserve?
Rabin
--- Dhyanjyoti Deka <dj_i...@...> wrote:
... We are talking about the local dialect which is the Kamrupi
language. Is it going to die out? At least in Guwahati, the younger
generation is trying not to speak because of the Dhekeri stigma.
Probably, this feeling will spread to the lower Assam districts as well.
How then we preserve this dialect? Maybe someone should write a book in
that dialect. Or someone should start publishing a newspaper? Someone
who wants to preserve his/her Kamrupi identity should do it. Remember,
languages thrive on constant output of literature. ...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/4717
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But yeah, I was ridiculed as a Dhekeri many times in school (cause of my
surname).
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/4705
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--- Dilip and Dil Deka <dilipd...@...> wrote:
After all it is a language still spoken by several millions. What would
be your estimate?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/4734
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