OF fftE INDO-CHINESE JfAtlOKS. lSll5 



word are very obvious ; in the following they are less 

 so, buhat to lift ; bungmuhat, bimgmtihuhat, bunuikat, 

 bubiih^t^ pagbu/iat, nakabuhat, nabiihat, bbuihat, bi- 

 'nubuhaf,hiihntin, bubuhatin, nagpabuhat, nagpapabiduitj 

 magpabuhaf^ magpapabuhat, pagpabuhat, pagpapabu^ 

 hat, pinabuhat, phiababuhat, muhat, ?ia?nuhaf, narnu- 

 viahat, mamuhati mamiimuhat, pinamiihat, pinamamu- 

 hat, pamnhatin, pamumuhatin. The addition of a 

 greater number of particles would still produce a con- 

 siderable number of additional metamorphoses, in 

 which it woRld be very difficult to recognize the ori- 

 ginal radical buhat ; but these may suffice to shew the 

 genius of the language ; and they will also tend to 

 shew the extreme danger that any etymologist or gram- 

 marian incurs, who presumes to treat of one of the 

 eastern languages without a radical knowledge of it, 

 and even, in some degree, of its cognate dialects. 



The greatest defects of Fra. Caspar de S. AU' 

 tiusTiN's Tcigala grammar proceed from his not hav- 

 ing comprehended sufficiently the original simplicity 

 of the dialect, nor even the simple artifice by which 

 the greater part of these changes have been effected; 

 and from having composed his grammar on European 

 principles, without attending uniformly to the pecu- 

 liar character of the language. 



With respect to the original literature of the Ta- 

 galas, the accounts of the Spanish missionaries are ra- 

 ther discordant. Sometimes they represent them as 

 totally devoid of histories, and books of science ; and 

 sometimes they represent them as in possession of 

 many historical poems ; not considering that almost 

 the whole body of the eastern history must be gleaned 

 from poetical tradition. It however appears, clearly 

 enough, from their own accounts, that the anwient 



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