ANTHROPOLOGY OF ASIA Cl 



IV 



Yeddaic people and Negritos are also found outside 

 India showing some relation between each other and 

 precisely with regard to their language, if we take into 

 consideration the conclusions of Father Schmidt, 1 who 

 finds linguistic affinities among the Mundas of India, the 

 Nicobarese (Negritos), the Palong, the "Wa and Rieng 

 of the Salwin basin, the Sakai (Veddaics) and Semang 

 (Negritos) of the Malacca Peninsula, 2 and the Mon-Khmer 

 of Indo-China. The Tibeto-Burman dialect also which 

 prevails in the Himalayas, from Kunawar in the Punjab 

 up to Darjeeling, preserves traces of an ancient language 

 which undoubtedly has Munda characteristics, as also the 

 language of the Khasis of Assam, though their physical 

 appearance is rather Mongoloid. 



I am forced to conclude that these protomorphic 

 Asiatics had a linguistic unity which was wider than 

 their somatic unity, but which must have been acquired 

 secondarily, the Pre-Dravidians by their greater expansion 

 having encroached upon Negritoid nucleuses. The 

 Mon-Khmer affinities extend themselves into Indonesia, 

 but here also we pass gradually into another somatic 

 unity, since the Indonesians cannot be confounded either 

 with the Negritos or with the Yeddaics, although they 

 are less distant from the latter than from the former 

 and have many kindred relics in Indo-China. We 

 pass over the anthropology of Indonesia of which the 



1 RCHMIIIT (W.), Die Mon-Khmer.Volker. "Arch. f. Anthrop." N. F., V, 1906; and 

 also Die Qliederung der Austral iscJien Spraclien. Wien, 1919. 



- CuiXDA (op. cit., p. 9) mentions the Sakai and the Semang as having affinity 

 with the Veddahs, but this is not quite accurate since the Sakai and the Semang 

 differ from each other, the Semang as well as the so-called black Sakai having 

 characters mostly of the Negritos, for which reason they are separated from the 

 Veddnio* in our tables (X, XT and XTT). 



