The nature of the mixed language. 830 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. “[ Chap. Bengai.so completely that the descendants of the Portuguese now speak bengali from their cradle. Yet down to so late a period as 1828, the Governor of Cri Ramapur, a Norwegian, received the daily report of his little garrison of 30 sepoys from the Native Commandant, a native of Oudh in Portu- 50০১০. A small number of words subjoined in the foot- note* are some of the remnants retained in Bengali of the great admixture of Portuguese which our language must have once borne in business and domestic colloquies. The prose, in which business transactions were conducted in Bengal, was thus a medley of many different languages, and it was to this point that Mr. Halhed one of the first Bengali grammarians refers with regret. In the very nature of things a pure Bengali prose could not grow up. The Maho-
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