Marathi learning material in english

[Madhav Deshpande]

There is a set of 4 books by Maxine Berntsen and Jai Nimbkar for Marathi
published by the Department of South Asian Regional Studies at the
University of Pennsylvania.  They are a good tool to learn modern Marathi.
There is an older book Spoken Marathi by Franklin Southworth and Naresh
Kavadi, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.  The various
regional and tribal dialects of Marathi have been studied separately and a
useful series of such studies was published by the Deccan College in Pune.
If you send a question addressed to Professor Ghatage at the Bhandarkar
Institute in Pune, you may perhaps get an exact answer.  Best,
                                                Madhav Deshpande

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Harry Spier wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> 1) Is there any good Marathi learning material in english?
> - A good reference grammar to modern spoken and written Marathi.
> - A good dictionary.
> - introductory colloquial "how to speak Marathi" material.
> - audio or video cassettes.
>
> 2) Can someone tell me if the language spoken by the tribal peoples in the
> Tansa valley (I think this is about 50 km. from Bombay) is different from
> standard Marathi?  Would this information be available in Grierson's
> Linguistic Survey of India (and if so has the language and dialect
> distribution in Maharashtra changed substantially since the survey was
> done)?
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
> Harry Spier
> 371 Brickman Rd.
> Hurleyville, New York
> USA 12747
>
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