534< Colonel Harriot on the Oriental Origin of the Gypseys. 



regulations. Of the seventy-four words in Sir William Ousele)^s list, at 

 least fifty-one are pure Sanscrit; the rest are mostly Persian. In like 

 manner, the language of the Zigeuner which is not Hindi is German — that 

 of the Gitano, Spanish — and that of the Gypseys, English ; in most 

 instances corrupted into slang or cant, but referable to the spoken dialect 

 of the country in which the people happen to reside : a local variation 

 which was to have been expected, and leaving, in the uniformity of the base 

 of their dialect, sufficient evidence of their Indian origin." 



Adelung of Germany, Mr. Marsden, Colonel Richardson, Lieutenants 

 Vincent and Pottinger, are the other writers who have thrown light on 

 the history of this singular people ; and it is only by the collection of data 

 and by the comparison of their respective vocabularies, by which we can 

 expect to trace their affiliation and general history. 



To explain briefly the similarity of the Gypsey or Romanes language in 

 England, Hungary, Spain, and Hindustan, I shall put down a few corre- 

 sponding words of each country, as selected from Mr. Bright for the Hun- 

 garian and Spanish, and from my own vocabulary for the English. 



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