1849.] Aborigines of Southern India. 351 



matta ; the last, from the Teltigu, gadda. This intermixture, which is 

 of ordinary occurrence in all cognate tongues, is here promoted specially 

 by extensive colonization of different races, as of the Telugus into 

 Southern India under the Bijaynagar dynasty, where they still exist as 

 distinct communities — and of the followers of Ramaniija Acharj into 

 Mysore, where they still are to be seen as a separate class speaking 

 Tamil in their families, and Carnataca in public. The Reddies also, an 

 enterprizing race of agriculturists, have migrated from their original 

 seats near Rajahmandry, over the whole of Southern India, and even into 

 the Maharashtra country, where they are considered the most thriving 

 ryots, and are met with as far north as Poona."* 



Of the uncultivated tongues of Southern India Mr. Elliot has been 

 able to procure me on the present occasion only incomplete vocabularies 

 of two, viz. the Curgi and Tddava. But further assistance may be 

 looked for from him in regard to this class of tongues, as to which he 

 observes that " the dialects of the Ciirambers and Irulers and other 

 mountain races of the south are well worth exploring." I have likewise 

 myself made fresh application to Colonel Low, to our Residents at 

 Baroda and Sattara, and to other parties residing at Gumsar, the Nil- 

 giris and Ceylon, with a view to completing the comparative vocabulary 

 of all the continental and Insular aboriginal languages ; and to our 

 authorities in Assam and in various parts of the chain of mountains 

 dividing our provinces from those of Ava, in order to obtain the Indo- 

 Chinese series of border languages — all upon one uniform plan. 



These shall be hereafter forwarded as received, with such remarks as 

 the study of the whole may suggest. 



* For the ordinary and proper locale of the several cultivated tongues of Southern 

 India, see Ellis' Dissertation and Wilson's Makenzie Manuscripts. Mr. Elliot 

 speaks in illustration of the general and well known facts of the case. 



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