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KKR.

　The Kakrs are a small tribe of comb-makers who are settled in the district of Jhansi in the United Provinces. They are said to have immigrated thither from Ajmer about two hundred years ago. They have a language of their own. Only some forty speakers of it have been recorded. I give two specimens of it,-an extract from the Parable of the Prodigal Son, and a folk-tale.

　 It will be seen that the language is exactly the same as that form of Labhni of which the standard is found in Berar. In other words, it is based on the language of South-West Rajputana and of North Gujarat.

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INDO-ARYAN FAMILY.

CENTRAL GROUP.

BANJR.

KKR DIALECT.

(DISTRICT JHANSI.)

SPECIMEN I.

k jan-r d chhr hat. -r chh chhr　apn bp-s

One man-to two sons were. His younger son his-own father-to

ka, ' dadd, dhan-m-s j mr has-ma baih,

said, 'O father, that property-in-from which my share-in may-be-set,

s d-dai.' Tab b dhan b din. Bahut din n hu

that give-away.' Then he property dividing gave. Many days not became

chh chhr sab kuchh l-k pards-ma chal-ga, r

the-younger son all things collecting a-foreign-country-into went-away, and

t luchpan-ma sabr dhan u-dn. Jab b sabr dhan

there evil-conduct-in all fortune wasted-away. When he all fortune

-dn, tab ds-ma ba kl pa. Ab kagl

had-wasted, then that country-in great famine fell. Now he indigent

h-ga, aur t-r rahay-ma k-r at ray lg; j

became, and that-place-of inhabitants-in one-of near to-live began; who

-n sar chari-n pahch-dn. Aur jn-s bhs sar kht-

him swine feeding-for sent-away. And which husks the-swine used-to-

t pn khus-s bhs kh cht-t. Ki-n

eat his-own pleasure-with those husks to-eat wishing-he-was. Anybody-by

n dn.

not was-given.

　 Jn-s = Hindstn jaun-s.