Assignment#2

                                  Submitted by Huma Khursheed

                                  Amir khusro poetry analysis

 Introduction:

  Amīr Khusrau was born in Patiyali in Etah,Uttar Pradesh. His father, Amīr Saif-ud-Dīn Mahmūd, was a Turkic officer and a member of the Lachin tribe of Transoxania,Central Asia, themselves belonging to the Kara-Khitais. At the invasion of Genghis  Khan, Saifuddin migrated from his hometown Kesh, near Samarkand, to Balkh. Saifuddin was then the chieftain of the Hazara. Shamsuddin Iltutmish, the Sultan of Delhi, welcomed them to Delhi. He provided shelter to the exiled princes, artisans, scholars and rich nobles. In 1230, he was granted a fief in the district of Patiyali.

After Khusrau's grandfather's demise, he joined as a soldier in the Army of Malik Chajju, a nephew of Sultan Balban. This brought his poetry to the attention of the Assembly of the Royal Court where he was honored.

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Lexical differences

Old words	New words
tura	tumhra
muray	mery
ajyaro	ojaar
Ahso	asay
ray	hai
muhay	mujhy
bhayo	bhaya
sang	Sath

Phonological changing:

Some sounds of old urdu are changed and use differently in modren urdu

Old sounds	New sounds
/j/ as in word (Najamuddin)	/z/ as in (Nazamuddin)
/y/ as in (payao)  deleted	/ao/ as in (pao)
/b/ades as in (deis bdes)	/ w/ as in (deis wadeis)

Morphological change:

Old morphemes	new morphemes
Phe-ri suffix deleted	Phir
Ri	No longer in use
Ray	No longer in use
ajya  prefix	Oja
Mila (wara) suffix deletion	Mila

 

In all these above examples derivational morphological process created new morphemes.