h
.
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Marh.
majur-pramn
sam   ."'
Mag uh n
ply
bp-p
|
| servant-like consider."' Then having-arisen his-own father-near to-go |
| lgl. |
| he-began. |
DHAN
GAR
.
One thousand eight hundred individuals in Chhindwara have been reported as
speaking Dhangar,
I. E. 'shepherds' language.' The specimens which follow will, however, show
that this dialect is nothing but the usual form of Marh
current in the Central Provinces. The Dative takes the suffix l
as in Betul; thus, mns-l,
to a man.
The only peculiarity of the so-called Dhangar
is a tendency to drop the final a which corresponds to 
in Standard Marh.
Thus, we find tyn, by him; saga
dhan, all property, and so on. This tendency is, however, also found among the
Dhangars of
the Bombay Presidency; see above, p. 97.
Note also the polite forms of the imperative y-
, please come;
ph-, please look; the imperfect baslt, were sitting;
the third person plural of the present tense, kht, they eat; tt,
they go, etc.
On the whole, however, the Dhangar agrees with the Marh
of the Cen- tral Provinces, just as the Dhangars of the Konkan speak the language
of their own neighbours. Compare pp. 97 and ff.
[No. 65.]
INDO-ARYAN FAMILY.
SOUTHERN GROUP.
MAR
H.
DHANGAR
DIALECT.
(DISTRICT CHHINDWARA.)
SPECIMEN I.