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On the Aborigines of Nor -Eastern India. 



[May, 



standard and makes the proper use of it. Of course, I reject, with Mr. 

 Robinson, as neutral quantities, all adopted, imitative and interjectional 

 words. But when I find Mr. R. insisting upon " casual" resemblances 

 as a class of words equally worthless with the three above enumerated, 

 I desire to know what this chance means ; for, one of the highest of 

 living authorities on Ethnology and Glottology, and one too who insists 

 almost too much upon the mechanism of language,* declares that " the 

 chance is less than one in a million for the same combination of 

 sounds signifying the same precise object." f "With these cautionary 

 remarks, which are given in a spirit of perfect courtesy towards Mr. R. 

 I now conclude, any further observations being unnecessary to explain 

 my purpose in appending the written and spoken Tibetan, the former 

 from De Coros ; the latter, from a native of Lassa, to my present series 

 of vocables. 



Comparative Vocabulary of the Tibiten, Bhimdl, B6d6 and Gdro 



tongues. 





Tibetan. 









English. 







Dhimdl 



Bodo. 



Gdro. 









Written. 



Spoken. 









Air 



rSungma 



Shakpa 



BirimaBhirma 



Bar H 



Lampar 



Ant 



Grogma 



Th6ma 



Nha mui 



Hasa, brai 



G6nga,Sambur 



Arrow 



mDah 



Da 



Kher 



Bala 



Phee 



Bird 



Byd^ 



Chya 



Jiha. 



Dou-chen 



Tou-chap 



Blood 



Khrang 



Thak 



Hiki 



Thoi 



Chi 



Boat 



Grii 



Koa,, Syen 



Naw£r H 



NouH 



Rung 



Bone 



Ruspa 



Ruko 



Hara H 



Begeng 



Kereng 



Buffalo 



Mahi. s. 



Mahe" 



Dia 



Moislio 



Moishi 



Cat 



Byila 



Simi 



Men khou 



Mouji 



Myou 



Cow 



Ba 



Pha, chtik 



Pia 



Mash-hu-jo 



Mashu 



Crow 



Khata 



Ablak 



Kawa 



Dou-kha 



Koura 



Day 



Nyinmo 



Nyi mo 



Nyi tima T 



Shyan 



Rasan, San 



Dog 



Khyi 



Uy6 



KbiaT 



Choi ma 



Kai T 



Ear 



Sa 



Amcho 



Nha, toog 



Kbouia 



Mach<5r 



Earth 



rNa 



Sa 



Bh6no'i 



Ha 



Ha 



Egg 



sG6nga 



Gong na 



Tui 



Dou-doi, 



fowl's water) 



Tou-chi, 

 (fowl's blood) 



Elephant 



gLangchen 



Lamboche 



Naria 



Mo'i gedet 



Naplo 



Eye 



Mig 



Mik 



MiT 



Mogon 



Makar 



Father 



Pha 



Pala 



Aba 



Bipha 



Aba 



Fire 



Ma 



Me 



MeT 



Wat 



Ver, Wal 



Fish 



Nya 



Gna 



Haiya 



NaT 



NaT 



Flower 



Metog 



Mentok 



Lhep 



Bibar 



Parr 



Foot 



rKangpa, 



Kango 



Khokoi 



Yapha 



Chaplap 



* See Bopp's remarks on the structural diagnostics of Sanscrit and Arabic 

 -Cornp. Gram. 

 f BuDsen's Report to the Brit. Assoc. 



