Author: GRIERSON, GEORGE ABRAHAM:
Title: An Introduction to the Maithil’ Language of North Bihâr Containing Grammar, Chrestomathy & Vocabulary. Parts I-II. Two volumes. Calcutta, Asiatic Society, 1881-2.
Description: . Pp. (ii), viii, 114, two appendices, errata lvs. 3; pp. (iv), 267. Modern boards. First edition of the first grammar and vocabulary of the Maithili language, a distinct Indo-Aryan language spoken by the inhabitants of Bihar in Eastern India and the Tarai districts of Nepal. Prior to Grierson's work Maithili was thought to be simply a corrupt form of Hindi. Grierson was an Irish-born linguist who served for many years in British India. He published numerous studies in the journals of learned associations and became Superintendent of the monumental Linguistic survey of India founded in 1894. These two parts were published as extra numbers to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, parts one and two. (1880 and 1882). Not in Vater.

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