Linguistic Survey of India- Vol.III, Indo-Aryan Family, Part-I. 

Abstract

I am personally responsible for the preparation of both parts of this volume. It lias been built up by degrees, .some of it having been "prepared and put-in type several years ago, while other portions have been completed quite lately. ^ Hence, perhaps, the work will here and there appear to be unequally proportioned. I have done* my best to avoid this, and, so far as the Dardic languages in this part are concerned, the disproportion is mainly due to the fact that we- know so little about many of them. Some of the languages under this head are here dealt with for the first time, #p.d what is written regarding them 'was collected with no little difficulty. (Che most striking example1 of this is Wasitveri^ arlangiiage spoken in the heart of Kafirist&n.^ The materials are entirely based upon the speech of one illiterate Presun shepherd who was found after loDg search, and who. knew no language but his own. * The volume concludes with a brief account of the Burushaski language of Hun2a- * Nagar. This is in no way related to the Dardic languages, or, in fact, to all other forms of the speech dealt with in this Survey. Its inclusion here is .due to geographical considerations, and also to the fact that the ancestors of its speakers appear to have once occupied-' the whole tract of .country in which Dardic languages are now spoked.