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ment of this part of speech is anomalous throughout the Tartar or 

 Mongolian tongues, by so much is the instanced coincidence with 

 the Circassian more significant, the anomalous or irregular character 

 of the pronouns of both not sufficing to conceal the coincidence, and 

 therefore doubly illustrating it. 



Circassian. — Ab, father. Wara, thou, the full pronoun. "Wa, the 

 contracted form, used in composition. 



Hence Wab or Wa-ab, thy father. 



Gydrung. — Pe, father. Nanre, thou, the full pronoun. Na, the 

 contracted form, used in composition. 



Hence Nape or JNa-pe, thy father. 



Yeebal use. 



Circassian. — Wara, < , > — kwisloit, thou ridest. 



Gydrung. — Nanre na — syo, thou knowest. 



I have changed the Gyarung verb, because I do not possess the 

 equivalent in that tongue for to ride. It matters not, however, as 

 the sample shows the grammatical form to be absolutely the same in 

 both sentences, just as well as if ride were the verb used in both. 



The other rules and examples (scanty I admit ) given by Latham 

 from Eosen may be matched in each instance by Gyarung rule and 

 sample, as will be seen in the sequel. But there is this difference in 

 respect to the Ea suffix, that it is applied to the first and second 

 pronouns in Circassian, though not to the third ; and to the second 

 only in Gyarung.* 



This however is in complete conformity with the other and typical 

 Mongolian tongues ; for in Mantchu, and in Mongol also, the Ea 

 suffix is found, but attaching only to the third personal ; and, if we 

 compare the Tere of those tonguesf with the Chinese Ta and the 

 Sokpo Tha, we shall perceive the perfect analogy of the suffix 

 throughout these tongues, in spite of its varying applications. 



* The first and second pronouns are so nearly alike in Gyarung (nga, na) that 

 the re suffix has probably been reserved to the second, in order to difference it more 

 plainly. 



f Recherches sur les langues Tartares, pp. 173, 183. I cannot thus revert to 

 the thoughts of my old antagonist (voce Buddhism) without a fresh tear dropt on 

 the untimely grave of that truly amiable and learned man. 



