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 THE TSTHXS ANTIQFART. [Jew. «.i-i-m Irl spito of proximity to the sea, si habitant! of Britain say mow; while, in fpil distance from the rmj. sonthem nui well as northern Germany says trim*?. Mr. Ben roes al»iw ineutions a tendency to use *f for ^ an showing the sumo >■: irilcim. Well, i'ii' n 1 ! M.iur.h.-hr.rj mnkci the infinitive cud iii nf, vhik- in Hindi it is *lf ; and wa cannot hc how climate can nwndy error wo hnvo dcteuu-d in the Introduction 1 is in the fallowing passage. " hi MarMQhi the formod 1 1,) (In- Insertion o " VoA intnirnftfA idgnJue cause to bo kiued.** D iitta bo kill" Khfi- v*rlin-ii. on thti uthr-r hand, doe* signify " l<> to cut." Tin're arc cnuuuht and causals; causals derived from verbs transitive, and canealu derived front verbs intransitive; and the syntax becomes a ohoo* when this distinction if overlooked. T>«* following mode of grouping the language* will reveal at a glance the- relative ehnm< | tiii'ir is»n«r.ituont uleim-nts. Lot thy left cuds of tho page denote the Arabic and Persian polo, and riglri ad* the StltakfSfc guv; and tho mivon n nmealan will stand thm? — BsaSAbtl I H'uull I I Bah SindhI [ UnjnrAt-t |, i i r , It. will be »uen that Hindi occupies tin? middle space. It draws freely from Amine and I' Ofl the one hand, ami from Sanskrit on the other: the iuihiuot'c uf tho Mnhsminadane batanciu of Mm Hindu , from tbefi^ "grddUr btslli^ u* Mr. Bcames expresses it, or, as wn may add, from their gmter energy lad tfw iofltunea of BAttliant. utadau rulers. Ha asoribes the comparatively small number of AmlnVond Persian words in Bon* iii; circumstance that there is '" an immense majority" Offiwdu bj Reugnl. Tim Muhniiuiuv dans, however, constitute about a third of the popn. lation; and in Eastern Bongo], tvocrO tiny are most DflCOflfOna, " Mii»aImAu6angalt" inalaitgunKenoti only spoken, but with n lircrafcura duscmns of attention. TltAtRm explnnjition jr thnt educated Baiu(iHi have been aln.rnr, nil Efindus, and tin y have bfX'O f«"»r tlit- must part — especially of late the most rigid of pn i ii «iftbit newit Tiirnacnlnrn, with tho sxoep* tton of Orita, po«aa«$ea dblcets. ffindl pos«niwm many. The laufrunjft-a. when they mert. seem to melt or pass impercaptihly into each othsr. without any I bins bite thnl abnipt tnunuliun which you feel in Europe when yon go, for example, from (rrrmany into Pmiw, Italy, or Russia. Tho dcrctapmimt of all the languagm has bean in one din-i-timi,— it dif- Wv can picture the time when the whole Aryan race spoke "what may fairly be cnllfil tfinrj Inngnage, tEtoitgU Itt nuiuy diverse forma." tNvcrsiticshnre grown with time ; yi question naturally occurs whether, in rlays to longnes irn.y nr>i again become one. This, however, will not probably bn bjthr- dUtleoti gradually atmnnwig one fypc. but by the " ■urvival of th- Hindi is more likely to esttngoiali others than Hmlf to W- rtjin^aiehed. It will piish ont Panjilbl and the multiform dialecLs r»f '-''. 'i ■" :o ;, an i fa Um i nllng tonga i from tibo Jl'ii.-i: tbb. from tho Indus to Bijnmhil. It will then lie spnkrm hy » hui onUltOMi and will prean heavily on its neighhonn. Gujarat! will be absorbed without difficulty. SintUd and Bongall will rwist much lunger, but will yield i»riya and 3laratht will hold Ottl nfter tbctrn liters bare ■ucctimbod, but tbry too moss perish. *' Yc*, n says Mr. Beanies, M that clear, ! m pto, graceful, Hfithle, rmil all-cipramvo Bpcecb Memi undoubtedly destined at fiorm< future period to supplant mont, iTrhot all. of the prwri diakcbl, and giro to all Aryan India one homo- geneouis OOltS^Otod form ef speech — to lie, in fact, b of the Indian world.'* That in a bold spoenlatji-in, truly: yet we are not properod to deny the possibility of its fulfil- ment. We deem It Ys*ry probable that Uujar&lt will l»- BUOorOed : mid a sttmdy extenninn of Hindi thruugfa thn MarAthA eonuiry, until it nhall stand oio> by side with Mkrnfht, Moms also Hkoh With Bangfill wo think the light will bo harder. Edur., Ub, who are all proud .if ibt-ir language and think AnanMse ind to tho death agnii, criurom-hing tongue. Let ii bi noted '''it the dialnet who h Mr BCttAOl 10 much admire* i-4 j Pel ' "liwd Tonn," l'.Cr— Urdu, writ' ten, no doubt, in tho iVirsian character. There la a light in India, " never ending, *till beginning," as to the relative merits of tlio two forms of thn language — the Hindi proper, as wo shall take the < Of calling it, and IWanimxl Hindi iITrdu). At r. Beams* cbarly hi a champion of the letter, u ; but does he not see how difficult it will bo for tho Hindus generally to adopt a foreign and lino iii mode of writing, burtoad uf their native, exprcsstiro, and easy KlgarlP We must I liim ef the story he oppositely quotes from Uabu iUje-ndralala Mitra. Th^ family of a