'HOD GA8PEY-OTTO-8AOER.PERSIANMODERNCONVERSATION-GRAMMARWITHREADING ENGLISH-PERSIAN VOCABULARYLESSONS,AND PERSIAN LETTERSBYTHE REV. W. M. A.ST. CLAIR-TISDALL,iPERSIA:C. M. S. MISSIONARYAT AUTHOROFGRAMMARSISFAHAN,OF THE PANJABI AND GUJARATl LANGUAGES.LONDON.DAVID 57-59 Acre. & 37 SohoLong DULAU Square.NUTT, Co.,St.SAMPSON MARSTON & Co., Dunstan's FetterLOW, Hoxise,Fleet Street.Lane,NEW YORK.F. W. E. STEIGER &BRENTANO'S, CHRISTERN, Co.,31 Union 254 Fifth Avenne. 25 Park Place.Square.C. A.BOSTON. KOEHLER & 149A Tremont Street.Co.,HEIDELBERG.JULIUS GROOS.1902.The method of is ownCraapey-Otto-Sanar my private property,been from the authors. The text-bookshaving acquired by purchasemade after this method are Allincessantly improved. rights, espe-the of new and the of translationcially right making editions, rightall are reserved. andfor Imitations fraudulentlanguages, impres-sions will be to law. I am thankful for com-prosecuted accordingthese matters.munications torelatingJulius Orroos.Heidelberg.Preface.of the has beenthe Italian East, longPersian,the mostas one of expressiveeuphonious,recognisedof Orientaland languages. Unfortunately,importantto most who haveEnglishmen spent anyhowever,in itstime in Persian is known antiqueIndia, onlywhich are still inform and largepronunciation,frontier and in othermeasure retained on the AfghanThis the student fromof India. beingparts preventshe forthe natives of shouldto Persia, ...
'HOD GA8PEY-OTTO-8AOER.
PERSIANMODERN
CONVERSATION-GRAMMAR
WITH
READING ENGLISH-PERSIAN VOCABULARYLESSONS,
AND PERSIAN LETTERS
BY
THE REV. W. M. A.ST. CLAIR-TISDALL,
i
PERSIA:C. M. S. MISSIONARYAT AUTHOROFGRAMMARSISFAHAN,
OF THE PANJABI AND GUJARATl LANGUAGES.
LONDON.
DAVID 57-59 Acre. & 37 SohoLong DULAU Square.NUTT, Co.,
St.SAMPSON MARSTON & Co., Dunstan's FetterLOW, Hoxise,
Fleet Street.Lane,
NEW YORK.
F. W. E. STEIGER &BRENTANO'S, CHRISTERN, Co.,
31 Union 254 Fifth Avenne. 25 Park Place.Square.
C. A.BOSTON. KOEHLER & 149A Tremont Street.Co.,
HEIDELBERG.
JULIUS GROOS.
1902.The method of is ownCraapey-Otto-Sanar my private property,
been from the authors. The text-bookshaving acquired by purchase
made after this method are Allincessantly improved. rights, espe-
the of new and the of translationcially right making editions, right
all are reserved. andfor Imitations fraudulentlanguages, impres-
sions will be to law. I am thankful for com-prosecuted according
these matters.munications torelating
Julius Orroos.Heidelberg.Preface.
of the has beenthe Italian East, longPersian,
the mostas one of expressiveeuphonious,recognised
of Orientaland languages. Unfortunately,important
to most who haveEnglishmen spent anyhowever,
in itstime in Persian is known antiqueIndia, only
which are still inform and largepronunciation,
frontier and in othermeasure retained on the Afghan
This the student fromof India. beingparts prevents
he forthe natives of shouldto Persia, anyintelligible
reason find it desirable to visit that Thecountry.
withwriter's own enables him toexperience speak
studiedsome little on thisauthority subject. Having
Persian in the heand learnt to found,speak Panjab,
to enter into conversation with Shir-on endeavouring
azts in that he was almost if notBombay, quite
to since of thethem, words,unintelligible many
and idioms he had learnt from the ofphrases pages
Sa'di and other classical Persian authors have become
theobsolete and have been others insuperseded by
in Persia itself. Itmodern as waslanguage spoken
discovered some corner ofas if a foreigner, having
the world in which was still theEnglish spoken by
as it occurs in the Elizabethan writerslearned, just
and with the of that distant hadpronunciation day,
learnt the from them and then tried to con-language
verse with the of His conver-English people to-day.
sation would seem at once stilted and and itvulgar,
would amuse with whom he came in contact.everyone
The Civil and authorities inMilitary England
and India seem to have tonow, however, begun grasp
the fact that Indian isPersian somewhat like what
the French of 'Stratford atte Bowe' inwas olden times,
and to feel the of the of
desirability favouring study
the as in Persia itself. Inlanguage actually spokenIV
to assist in the attainment of thisorder, possibly,
the Publisher of this Series of Conversationobject,
Grammars has done me(the Method')'Gaspey-Otto-Sauer
the honour to entrust me with the of thepreparation
which I trust will useful topresent volume, prove
students and will not be found of aunworthy place
the excellent Handbooks on other lan-among many
which have rendered the Series so well knownguages
in lands.many
The aim of this is the StudentVolume to provide
with a and Introductionthoroughly practical up-to-date
to the of the Modern Persian There-study Language.
notfore obsolete whenever it couldeverything has,
be been admitted in such aomitted,profitably only
manner as to shew the which haveclearly changes
in tooccurred the in of andlanguage time,process
warn the student wordstooagainst using antiquated
and modes of which are notemploying (') expression
now or are used in a different sense.used,
A residence of more than seven in Persiayears
itself to ofaddition(in many years' previous study
the and with all classes of theconversationlanguage)
I in some fitted mepeople have, trust, slight degree,
for the task which I have been invited to undertake.
I am much of Is-indebted to Mirza Asadu'llahAqa
who has Persian Text ofrevised thefahan, carefully
the Stories contained in this and has alsoGrammar,
been consulted about matter of importance. Myevery
H. Stilemansincere thanks are due to the Rev. C.
M. the of the C. M. S. PersiaA., Mission,Secretary
thefor his kindness ingreat carefully throughgoing
MS. theof this Grammar with and for manyme,
1 The of this is well illustrated the narrativedanger by
of what occurred to a learned Orientalist who had
actually
to be tra-studied Persian in the and thenPanjab happened
in Persia. his horse's bridle to a native servantvelling Handing
he i mdra kun.' He doubtless meant to saysaid, 'Asp hidftyat
in bikun' :'Lead horse' Modern Persian 'Asbamrtt jildumy
in thebut what he did denoted 'Guide horseactually say my
of the commissionsalvation'. The Persian's atway surprise
with which he was entrusted is more thaneasily imagined
described.he has made. from suchvaluable suggestions Coming
a careful and accurate student of the as helanguage
these have been of service to me.is, great
at the end ofThe LessonsReading subjoined
in from the Sadthis book are taken Hikaydt,part
and in from the Journal of the late Shah's Thirdpart
inVisit to The former book is well known,Europe.
India but its is somewhatstyle antiquated,especially;
ob-and not a few of the words used in it are now
I Mirzasolete. have therefore had it rewritten by
the of its andwithAsadu'llah, object bringing style
into accord with the best mo-phraseology complete
dern standard. The first sixteen Stories are asgiven
Exercises in the Grammar in the usualitself, print-
and the to the end of 34,ing type; rest, Story
are in in Read-the Naskh charakter thelithographed
lessons. The in the Shah's Journalwhiching style
is at once free and be saidcomposed, elegant, may
to have now become the model for such compositions
in Persian. The extracts from it are in thegiven
character. Until the Student can read theseNasta'liq
Extracts he should not to read thefreely, attempt
Persian Letters contained in F. The Shikas-Appendix
teh hand in which are for the most writtenthey part
is somewhat difficult to and the shoulddecipher, Key
here be consulted the in orderLearner,carefully by
to test his success in the which willsolving enigmas
themselves in this of hisplentifully present part
course of fromThese Letters are a selectionstudy.
those received Persian friends.from variousactually
The of the has beenvariety handwriting carefully
but the of certainreproduced, necessity obliterating
names etc. has some erasures here andproper produced
there in reader's isfor which thethem, indulgence
It will be noticed that the Les-requested. Reading
sons are as is usual in Persian andpaged books,
at the end of the Volume.begin
It is to add to the bulk of thisunnecessary
volume aby appending Persian-English Vocabulary,
as Palmer's Smaller will Dictionary
all that the will The ad-supply beginner require.VI
vanced student will find PersianSteingass' Dictionary
needful.
It remains for me to obligationsacknowledge my
to Forbes' and Dr. Rosen's Persian Gram-Ibrahim's,
Ifrom which have borrowed usefulmars, suggestions,
I to differ from them wheneverhave venturedthough
accuracy required.
The of transliteration is an exactsystem adopted
and this will enable the withoutone, student, any
sacrifice of to with the Persianaccuracy, dispense
character in the first few Exercises and thus to learn
readof the before tosomething language beginning
the Persian a method which has
type, experience
shewn to be useful and The Persianvery profitable.
ofcharacter used in theis, however, reproduction
these Lessons in the The oftheKey. English passages
for it will betranslation into Persian observed,has,
an Oriental as it is a translation from the
colouring,
Persian in the ofthe histor-Manyoriginal given Key.
ical are taken a few alterationspassages (with slight
and Hairat's Persianfrom Mirza Ver-simplifications)
sion of Sir John Malcolm's of Persia.History
W> St. Clair-Tisdall.Bedford.