The History of the Bengali Language
Nonfiction, History, Asian, India, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Grammar
| Author: | Bijay Chandra Majumdar | ISBN: | 1230001863888 |
| Publisher: | Kar publishing | Publication: | September 9, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Bijay Chandra Majumdar |
| ISBN: | 1230001863888 |
| Publisher: | Kar publishing |
| Publication: | September 9, 2017 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
The History of the Bengali Language by Bijay Chandra Majumdar
The following lectures on the History of the Bengali Language are intended to give a sketch, in broad outline, of the origins of that language and the various influences, linguistic, ethnic, social, that shaped and moulded its earlier history. One essential requirement of a scientific procedure in an investigation of this sort, I have steadily kept in view. The ethnic as well as the social history of a people or group of peoples must corroborate and light up the linguistic history, if the latter is to be rescued from the realm of prehistoric romance to which the story of philological origins, as so often told, must be however reluctantly assigned by the critical or scientific historian of to-day. One or two incidental results of my application of this anthropological test may be here mentioned.
The History of the Bengali Language by Bijay Chandra Majumdar
The following lectures on the History of the Bengali Language are intended to give a sketch, in broad outline, of the origins of that language and the various influences, linguistic, ethnic, social, that shaped and moulded its earlier history. One essential requirement of a scientific procedure in an investigation of this sort, I have steadily kept in view. The ethnic as well as the social history of a people or group of peoples must corroborate and light up the linguistic history, if the latter is to be rescued from the realm of prehistoric romance to which the story of philological origins, as so often told, must be however reluctantly assigned by the critical or scientific historian of to-day. One or two incidental results of my application of this anthropological test may be here mentioned.
