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language, considered as a whole, is derived from the same source as the 
Punjabee and Scindee” (in which no one ever suspected a Dravidian 
connection), but he goes on to show that the Brahui has also a Dravi- 
dian element in it. Now there are scarcely any two languages in 
which here and there words of similar meaning and similar sound may 
not be found, but so far as the vocabulary goes, Dr. Caldwell’s list 
seems to show that he must have been very hard put to it. ‘ Khaff,’ 
the ear, and ‘ped,’ the belly, seem to me at least as near to the 
Hindoostanee ‘kan’ and ‘ pet’ as to the Dravidian ‘ kadu’ and ‘ pir’ 
or ‘bir.’ ‘ Kat,’ a bedstead is, I think, distinctly a Hindee or Punjabee 
word. ‘ Dir,’ water, seems to me as near to the Kolarian ‘ dah’ as to 
the Dravidian ‘nr.’ ‘ Ae’ or ‘ ay2,’ a mother or nurse, and ‘ pussie,’ 
a cat, are words of world-wide use. 
So also the pronoun ‘nz’ or ‘nim,’ thou or you, appears in some 
shape in every dialect not purely Arian, from Australia to northern 
Siberia and from Japan to Finland. I really cannot find above 6 or 8 
words which Dr. Caldwell shows to be especially like Dravidian words, 
and to make out these, he picks and chooses from every one of the 
different Dravidian dialects and accepts some rather distant resem- 
blances as ‘pak’ to go, Tamil ‘ pogu.’ This much seems to me to 
prove nothing whatever. . 
Again, take his grammatical resemblances. Some seem to be too 
wide, applying to many other languages, and others too minute, The 
use of postpositions and the want of. comparatives and superlatives in 
adjectives is equally a coincidence with Hindoostanee and many other 
languages, neighbours of the Brahui on one side. The expression of 
gender by separate words and of plurals by postfixes denoting plurality 
is equally common to many other languages, including the neighbour 
of the Brahui on the other side, the Persian, e. g. ‘ nar-gow’ a ‘ male 
cow, and Aspahan ‘ horses.’ The genitive in ‘na’ seems just as like to 
the Hindoostanee and Punjabee ‘ka’ or ‘ da’ as to the Tamilian ‘ ma.’ 
The dativesaccusative in ‘e’ is a familiar Hindoostanee or Punjabee 
form, thus instead of ‘ Mujh-ko do’ Give me, it is constantly ‘ Mujhe 
do,’ and ‘ Use maro’ beat him, especially with the Punjabees. So also 
‘ ten,’ said by Dr. Caldwell to mean ‘ self’ in Brahui, seems very like the 
same syllable used to give precision in Hindoostanee as “ Use-ten do,” 
which I should translate ‘give to him himself’ At any vate ‘ ten’ is 
found nearer at hand than the Dravidian ‘ tan.’ 
