5 14 Aborigines of the Nilgiris. [No. 6. 



With regard to the personal endings or pronominal suffixes of 

 the Nilgirian verbs, their obscurity is sufficiently conformable to 

 the cultivated Dravirian models with due allowance for mistakes on 

 the part of the rude speakers of the former tongues. Something 

 may also be ascribed with probability to decomposition and disue- 

 tude. But upon the whole we cannot doubt that these tongues 

 belong to the pronomenalized class, and that, for example, the ni 

 and mi of Toda tinsbi-ni, 1 eat, tinsbi-mi, we eat, with the an, al, 

 ad of Nidre-madut-an, madut-al madut-ad, fie, she, it, sleeps of 

 Kurumba, are instances of suffixed pronouns. And now, having 

 already remarked sufficiently upon the other peculiarities of the 

 Nilgiri pronouns under the head of " pronoun," I shall here bring 

 these remarks, suggested by the Nilgirian vocabularies, to a close. 



P. S. — Of the many resembling or identical words in the Hima- 

 layan and Dravirian tongues, I say nothing at present. Those who 

 meanwhile wish to see them, have only to consult the several voca- 

 bularies printed in the Journal. 



But with reference to what I have stated above, that there exists 

 an authentic tradition (reduced to writing some five hundred years 

 back) identifying the people of the Malabar coast with those of 

 Nepal proper (or the Newar tribe) I may just point to such words 

 are wa vel va = come, and sumaka == silent, as perfectly the same 

 in form and meaning both in the Newar language and in that of the 

 Nilgirians. 



