Kachári 民间故事与歌谣集

"Whom do you call a hero? I am no hero at all. If you want a real hero, look out for Gilâ Charan." But the lad said "As for Gilâ Charan, why, I am Gilâ Charan." On which Simli Bîr got leave to go with him.

七武士中六英雄以"互相认证" 方式结义——每人都说"真正的英雄不是我, 是 Gilâ Charan", 而 Gilâ Charan 一路收集六英雄——这种"互相推举"叙事链是 Kachári 民间故事的标志性情节; plot 76.

And, so saying, he too joined the party. And in like manner they were joined by other four champions, namely, Mustard, Monkey, Ocean, and Fire, six in all, besides Gilâ Charan.

"Mustard, Monkey, Ocean, Fire" 四位英雄——把抽象概念拟人化为勇士, 是 Kachári 民间 cast 的典型手法; cast 78.

A Kachári lad married an Assamese girl, and going to his mother-in-law's house was given food. His hospitable mother-in-law cried to him "Khâ! Khâ!" so he bound her hand and foot. Then she laughed, seeing that he supposed her to be talking Kachári. So she said to him (in Kachári) "Zâ! Zâ!" on which he went away.

P.S. 段以 "Khâ! Khâ!" / "Zâ! Zâ!" 双语双关趣闻作前言收束——把语言学论证以幽默节奏收束; pace 74.

I can think of no other two languages in which it would be possible to translate a long statement word for word out of one into the other and yet be idiomatic.

Anderson 1900 年前的语言学观察——把"两种语言能逐字翻译并都通顺"作为同源假说的证据——典型 19 世纪末欧陆历史比较语言学; prose 79.

Not only the Kacháris, but the other hill tribes of

Anderson 把 Kachári 与阿萨姆邦其他山地民族 (Tipperah / Gáro Hills / North Cachar) 串成一个 Bodo 语支世界, 是 1895 年印度学界少见的"民族地理"写法; world 84.

The Kachári version is, literally, a word-for-word translation of the Assamese.

Anderson 在前言直接抛出"双语逐字对译"假说作为钩子, 之后才进入 18 则故事——把语言学论证当作"开胃菜", 钩子扎实; hook 80.

A more tempting theory is that Assamese and Kachári are both survivals of the vanished speech of the great Koch race, who, we know, ruled where Assamese and Kachári are now spoken side by side; that Assamese has retained the Koch syntax, while it has adopted the Hindu vocabulary of Bengal; that Kachári has preserved both vocabulary and syntax.

把 Koch 族 (16 世纪孟加拉北部土邦) 与 Kachári / Assamese 串联, 提议三者同源——是 1895 年印度学界民族-语言学双层创新; innov 84.

Finally, the tiger said "If so be, I must be in pain, I must be. But I don't see what it is all about." Then the old man replied "This is precisely what they called the ghughu ban." Then the tiger said "I see, I see, now let us go. We have learned our lesson."

以"ghughu ban" 训虎收束 18 则故事——以一则"驯服猛兽" 的民俗幽默作集子末段; ending 78.