Hinduism / by Monier Williams.

  • Monier Monier-Williams
Date:
1877
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hinduism / by Monier Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    s 3. Marathi, spoken by- about fifteen millions in Maharashtra in the Dekhan, including a dialect of it in the Konkan, known as Konkani. 4. Gujarati, spoken by about seven millions in Gujarat. 5. Panjabi, spoken by about twelve millions in the Panjab. 6. Kdsmiri, by nearly two millions in Kasmlr. 7. Sindhi, spoken by about two millions in Sindh. 8. Oriya, spoken by about five millions in Orissa. The foregoing eight belong to distinct divisions of the Aryan race, which may be called Indo-Aryan. Next, taking the non-Aryans, we have six other differ- ences of race, which we may also mark by the names of their languages. In the first place, the four great Dravidian races (numbering nearly forty-six million persons), as follows :— 9. Tamil, spoken by about fifteen millions, begin- ning with the northern portion of Ceylon, and extend- ing from Cape Comorin northward along the south of Travancore, and what is called the Karnatic; that is, along the southern part of the Coromandel coast to about a hundred miles north of Madras. 10. Malaydlam, almost a dialect of Tamil, spoken by nearly four millions in Travancore and along the southern portion of the Malabar coast. 11. Telugu, called from its softness the Italian of India, spoken by nearly sixteen millions, from a line north of Madras, along the northern part of the Coro- mandel coast, or Northern Circars, and over part of the Nizam’s territory. 12. Kanarese, spoken by rather more than nine
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