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LED  \nBY  \nM.BRONSON,  \nMRica⁵BA7187 M18510ABY。  \nJFírst Eoftion.  \n▲MEBICAN BA PT1ST MISs10N PRE5S.  \nSI BSAG OR.  \n1800 copies.]  \n1867.  \n# 一\n\nH.70iJ佳  \nLOAN STACK  \nW.Ward,Printer,  \n95  \n,nBVU(  \n1e1  \n·                g5002  \n491  \nPK1556B8  \nPREFACE.  \nASSAMESE is the language usually spoken by the entire popu-Yation of the Brahmaputra Valley,and in most cases it is the onlymedium of intercourse with the bordering Hill Tribes.There isnothing to show that the Assamese race and their .language havenot existed in this Valley from time immemorial;and it is surpri-sing that,during the change of rulers,the oppression and misrulete which they have been subjected,there are so few traces of anymaterial change in their language.The Ahoms,a branch of thegreat Shan or Tai race,conquered Assam at an early period,andgaverned it for many hundred years,until it passed into the handsof the present Government;bat scarcely a trace of their languageis found in the present dialect of the Assamese.The Burmese,the Mohammedans,and powerful Cachari Tribes have in turn wagedwar upon Assarn without affecting the language.This may serve toshow the love of a people for their own tongue,and that if we wouldconfer upon them the blessings of science and the true Religion,the mɔst direct and successful medium is their own vernacular.  \nUufortunately an impression has prevailed that Assanese andBengali are identical or nearly sn.Hence all the Schools,Courts,and offisial business of every kinl are conducted in Bengali.Thishas greatly retarded the cause of education and general progressamong the masses They have no inclination to abandon their ownfor a foreign dialect.The higher classes,seeing their own languageignored,strive to obtain a suficient knowledge of Bengali to fillGovernment offices;but they nerer feel at home pin the language.In the family and social circle,nothing but the vernacular is spoken.Were Gioverument now to abandon the country,Assamese wouldsupersede all other dialects simply because it is the language ofthe masses.  \nThat eminent linguist Max Muller tells us,that“there is hardlya language that in some sense may not be called a mixed language.No nation or Tribe was ever su completely isolated as not to ad-mit a certain number of foreign words.”Again,“It matters nothow many words may be derived in commol from another language,  \niv  \nit does not prove the identity of any two dialects.It is to thiegrammar that we must look,to decide their identity.”  \nNow in regard to the supposed identity of Assamese and Beng:ali,let it be borne in imind that wherever Hinduism goes,it takes itssacred language,the Sanscrit,along with-it.In all the dialects ofIudia,spoken 'by Hindoos,religious and scientific terms 'are mostlyof Sanscrit origin,modified more or'less by'the pectliarities ofeach dialect.But the grammars'of these dialects are different;hence they are distinct languages,notwithstanding they have mallywords in comnon.So 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