14. The Hindi.—Agra, Delhi, Oude, said to form the basis of the Sub-Himalayan languages of Gurwhal, Sirmor, Kumaon, Bisahur, and Nepaul(?).
15. The Hindostani.—The Hindi proper converted by the introduction of Persian and other words into a sort of lingua Franca.
16. The Maithili.—Spoken in South Bahar.
17. The Bengali.—Bengal.
18. The Assamese.—South-western part of Assam. Not the indigenous language even to that district. Closely akin to the Bengali, of which it is, perhaps, scarcely more than a dialect. This and the Bengali are conterminous with the monosyllabic languages of the eastern Sub-Himalayan range, and the northern portion of the Transgangetic Peninsula.
19. The Udiya.—Spoken in Cuttack and Orissa, as far south as 18° south latitude (there or thereabouts); conterminous with the Bengali on the north.
The southern part of the Udiya area is irregularly bounded by portions of the country belonging to the first class, and its western by portions belonging to the second class of Indian languages. As the Udiya is the most southern of the Indian tongues belonging to the first division on the east, the—
20. Mahratta.—Is the most southern on the west side of the Peninsula; bounded on the north by the Satpura Mountains, as far as Nagpore; thence it follows the course of the Nagpore river as far as its junction with the River Wurda. Westward, the boundary between it and the Kanara (of the second division) runs in an irregular line to Goa.
21. The Concani.—The strip of coast between the western Ghauts and the sea between Bombay north, and Goa south. The district of Concana interrupting the area of the Mahratta language, of which, perhaps, it is a dialect.