The Popular Literature of Northern India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2818509 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George A Griekson (Institute of Oriental Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1920 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 87-122 |
| Publication date | 1920-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x00087164 |
| OpenAlex | W2121377312 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The languages of India Proper belong to two great families- in the North, the Indo-Aryan; and in the South, the Dravidian. The map here displayed shows the localities in which the former are spoken. These Indo-Aryan tongues again lull into two main groups, viz., those of the Midland-indicated on the map by red - and a number of Outer Languages, indicated by blue. These two groups differ from each other in an important characteristic, which has affected their respective literatures to no inconsiderable extent. In the Midland the languages are all analytical. Their grammars are very simple, they are cumbered by few grammatical forms, and they indicate the various relations of time and space by the aid of auxiliary words, just as we do in English. The Outer Languages, on the contrary, are synthetic. Their idioms depend chiefly on grammatical form, and, as in Latin or German, each has a more or less complicated system of declension and conjugation
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| Citations per year | 0.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2023 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |