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Forbes, Duncan

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Scottish linguist (1798-1868)

Born 1798
Died 1868

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  • Cover of: A grammar of the Hindūstānī language: in the Oriental and roman character, with numerous copper-plate illustrations of the Persian and Devanāgarī systems of alphabetic writing. To which is added, a copious selection of easy extracts for reading, in the Persi-Arabic & Devanāgarī characters, forming a complete introduction to the Bagh-o-bahar; together with a vocabulary, and explanatory notes.

    Cover of edition agrammarhindstn00forbgoog First published in 1846 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: A grammar of the Persian language: to which is added, a Selection of easy extracts for reading; together with a vocabulary and translations.

    First published in 1844 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Bāgh o bahār: consisting of entertaining tales in the Hindūstānī language

    First published in 1846 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: A grammar of the Hindústání language, in the Oriental and Roman character: with numerous copper-plate illustrations of the Persian and Devanágarí systems of alphabetic writing : to which is added, a copious selection of easy extracts for reading, in the Persi-Arabic and Devanágarí characters, forming a complete introduction to the Totá-Kahání and Bágh-o-Bahár, together with a vocabulary of all the words, and various explanatory notes

    First published in 1855 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: A dictionary, Hindustani and English: accompanied by a reversed dictionary, English and Hindustani.

    First published in 1848 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Hindtmanual: a pocket companion for all those who visit India in any capacity : intended to facilitate the essential attainments of conversing with fluency, and composing wih accuracy, in the most useful of all the languages spoken in our eastern empire

    Cover of edition hindtmanualinten00forb First published in 1860 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: A dictionary, Hindustani & English

    First published in 1857 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: A grammar of the Arabic language: intended more especially for the use of young men preparing for the East India Civil Service, and also for the use of self-instructing students in general

    First published in 1863 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Arabic reading lessons: consisting of easy extracts from the best authors, together with a vocabulary of all the words occurring in the text; also some explanatory annotations, etc.

    First published in 1864 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Bengali reader: consisting of easy selections from the best authors; with a translation, and vocabulary of all the words occurring in the text.

    First published in 1862 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Dictionary: Urdu and English

    First published in 1986 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: A dictionary, Hindustani and English, accompanied by a reversed dictionary, English and Hindustani.

    First published in 1857 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: grammar of the Beng©Æal©Æi language: to which is added a selection of easy phrases and useful dialogues

    First published in 1875 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: grammar of the Hindūstānī language, in the Oriental and Roman character, with numerous copper-plate illustrations of the Persian and Devanāgarī systems of alphabetic writing.: To which is added, a copious selection of easy extracts for reading, in the Persi-Arabic & Devanāgarī characters, forming a complete introduction to the Bagh-o-bahar; together with a vocabulary, and explanatory notes.

    First published in 1862 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: grammar of the Hindustani language: in the Oriental and roman character, with numerous copper-plate illustrations of the Persian and Devanagari systems of alphabetic writing. To which is added, a copious selection of easy extracts for reading, in the Persi-Arabic & Devanagari characters, forming a complete introduction to the Bagh-o-bahar; together with a vocabulary, and explanatory notes

    First published in 1855 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: grammar of the Hind©Øust©Øan©Øi language in the oriental and Roman charac

    First published in 1855 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: grammar of the Hind©Æust©Æan©Æi language, in the Oriental and Roman character, with numerous copper-plate illustrations of the Persian and Devan©Æagar©Æi systems of alphabetic writing.: To which is added, a copious selection of easy extracts for reading, in the Persi-Arabic & Devan©Æagar©Æi characters, forming a complete introduction to the Bagh-o-bahar; together with a vocabulary, and explanatory

    First published in 1862 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Hindūstānī manual: a pocket companion ... in two parts. Part 1: a compendious grammar of the language, with exercises ... Part 2: a vocabulary.

    First published in 1859 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Hindūstānī manual intended to facilitate the essential attainments of conversing with fluency: and composing with accuracy, in the most useful of all the languages spoken in our eastern empire ...

    First published in 1909 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Hindustani manual.: A new ed., carefully rev. : by Shamsul Ulama M. Yusuf Jafari.

    First published in 1918 — 1 edition
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Scottish linguist (1798-1868)

Born 1798
Died 1868

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Hindustani language, Grammar, Dictionaries, English, English language, Hindustani, Writing, Arabic Writing, Arabic language, Readers, Conversation and phrase books, Persian language, Bengali language, Chess, Folklore, Hindus, Hindustani literature, History, Tales, Texts and translations, Translations into English, Vampires, Writing Arabic

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ids
June 7, 2012 Edited by VacuumBot Removed period from death date
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import