1895.] '^•^ [Briuton. 



ited portions of the country there still live a shy, secluded 

 people,, the Taktadschy, who preserve just these traits, and he 

 at once noticed their similarity to the Auvergnats and Savoy- 

 ards. They are recognized as the descendants of the most 

 ancient inhabitants, and certainly present their characteristics.* 

 The inscriptions and local dialects of Cappadocia and Lycia 

 preserve some expressions which appear to me to be of the 

 Lesghian group of the Caucasic stock ; as 



nine, dangar, udczgo. 



These indicate that at some time in the past there has been 

 an impermeation of Caucasic elements into the Cappadocian 

 population. f The Taktadschy have adopted the modern Turk- 

 ish, at least for intercourse with the world. 



The Anatolian inscriptions proper seem as likely to be in 

 Aryan as in any other stock. The personal pronouns mi and ti 

 are surely Aryan, and not " Alarodian," as Hommel argues ; | 

 they are the English-Aryan me and thee ; the word for son, s-t-r^ 

 corresponds to the Armenian iislr ; " siris," king, is Ar^-an, and 

 so on § 



The strongest evidence is in the ancient place-names. These 

 show peculiarities in western and southern Asia Minor which 

 have been repeatedly commented upon. A large number of them 

 terminate in -anda (-enda, -inda, -onda) or in -ess (-assa, -essos, 

 etc.). They extend westward into Thrace and Macedonia, prov- 

 ing a European connection in prehistoric times. Pauli, Toma- 



*See Von Luschan's article, " Die Taktadschy," in tbe Archivfiir Antkropologie, 189:5. 



tTomascliek quotes some of tliese from the Glossary of the Cappadocian dialect lately 

 published by Capolides, which work I have been unable to see. Tomaschek does not 

 offer any analogies for them. Others belong to the "Lyciau inscriptions," of which a 

 Corpus is soon to be published by the Imperial Academy of Vienna. 



Jin the Archivfiir Antkropologie, Bd. xix, p. 251. 



§See the article of Dr. Jensen above referred to for other instances ; and also his replies 

 to the criticism of Prof. Sayce in the Academy, 1894. Of course, within the territory of 

 the Anatolians we may expect to find both Semitic and Caucasic names and inscriptions, 

 as it was the meeting-ground of the three stocks for thousands of years before history 

 began, as it has been ever since. 



