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- Title
Brajāvalī Form of Early Assamese and Early Maithili: A Contrastive Study.
- Authors
Mahanta, Subasana
- Abstract
The role of Brajāvalī diction in the languages used in medieval Indian Vaisņava literature has been significant. This is not a language spoken in any region; it is a literary form comprising elements of various languages prevalent in different regions of Northern India -- Nepal, Orissa, Bengal and Assam were written in this form. However, regional differences of this form have also been evident. This paper is an attempt to make a contrastive study of Assamese Brajāvalī form and early Maithili. The study shows that the differences are more than the similarities between early Maithili and Assamese Brajāvalī. It arrives at a conclusion that Assamese Brajāvalī is a different language form than the early Maithili.
- Subjects
NORTH India; ASSAMESE language; CONTRASTIVE linguistics; MAITHILI language; COMPARATIVE linguistics
- Publication
Language in India, 2015, Vol 15, Issue 6, p60
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article