PRINCE— TATAR MATERIAL IN OLD RUSSIAN. 



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VERB. 



As will be observed, the Sart Tatar of Eastern Russia is even 

 more similar to Cumanian than is Osmanli, as the m-form of the 

 pronoun of the first person man-men constantly appears instead of 

 the Osmanli ben. The inserted n before the nominal-pronominal 

 genitive-ending -ing (->'«), which remains in Osmanli only in words 

 ending in a vowel, is still common in Sart, as it was in Cumanian. 



In 1338 A.D., the Franciscan Friar Pascal of Vittoria wrote that 

 he learned the lingua Chamanica and the Uigur letters, " which are 

 used commonly throughout these kingdoms ; " that is. throughout 

 the empires of the Tatars, Persians, Chaldaeans, Medes and Cathay.^* 

 In other words, Pascal states that Cumanian was the idiom in com- 

 mon use as a vernacular throughout Central Asia as far as China 



1* Cited Bang, Beitrdge, p. 33. 



