24 The Ethnology of India. 
other like those Arabian and African languages which seem to form 
their changes by variations in the body of the word. The Indian 
Aboriginal languages, in common with the Hindustanee, the Turkish, 
and some Arian tongues, seem to form declensions, conjugations, and 
derivations, and to supply the place of what we call ‘ prepositions’ by 
post-positions and post-inflections. The verb or governing word comes 
at the end of the sentence, instead of at the beginning as in English, 
somewhat thus, our order being just reversed. 
Rem acu tetigit 
Cheez sui-se chuha 
Thing needle with touched he. 
The word ‘ Turanian,’ as applied to an immense class of languages, 
does not, however, imply any immediate connection with Thibetans 
or Mengolians, from whom the Indian Aborigines are physically so 
world-wide asunder. It is used in that very wide sense which in- 
cludes not only all the Mongolian races, but all the Polynesian races, 
and all the Negritoes of the Indian Archipelago, Australia, and Van 
Diemen’s land. A few vocables are said to be found, common to the 
Dravidian tongues and to some other Turanian languages. But the 
greatest resemblance is said to be not to the nearer Mongolians, but to 
the most distant Finns, and it is at the same time admitted that there 
are at least as great indications of a special connection with the 
Australian Negritoes. It may then generally be said, that both in 
physique and in the structure of their language, the Aborigines present 
a type analogous to that of the Negritoes of the South Seas, Papuans, 
Tasmanians and others, as well as to the nearer Negritoes of Malacca 
and the Andamans. ; 
That which I have already said of the general character of the laws 
and institutions of the Non-Arians as distinguished from the Arians, is 
all that I can give as common to all these tribes. On this and many 
other points, we require much more information. 
One tribe only I must except, as quite without and beyond the 
general descriptions of the Aborigines which I have given, viz. the 
Todas of the upper plateau of the Neilgherry hills. They are not 
properly Hindoos, but no one who sees them, would for a moment 
suppose that they belong to the Negrito races. They are evidently 
Caucasians of a high type. In truth they are but avery small tribe; the 
