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Of these, Machari
was returned from the Kapurthala State as spoken by
a tribe of fowlers who had come from Sind. It has turned out to be ordinary
Sindh
with a slight admixture of Pa
jb and need not occupy us
any more in this place. The remaining Gipsy dialects named above will be described
in the ensuing pages. This list is unfor- tunately far from exhausting the number
of such languages. We know that the Ch
hrs, the Dalls, the Naqqsh,
and several other tribes and castes possess secret trade jargons of their own,
and many criminal tribes have been described who freely mix their speech with
slang words and phrases in order to prevent outsiders from understanding them.
No new materials about them have, however, been forwarded for the purposes of
this Survey, and I can therefore only refer to such authorities dealing with
them as I have come across.
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