ace 



istap 



horse 



give 



boroh 



dovong 



horse 



give 



1853.] On the Mongolian Affinities of the Caucasians. 33 



gies, together with the explanation from the Tibetan of the widely- 

 used but heretofore unexplained Ba suffix, constitute in themselves, 

 and as sustaining all those numerous identities of the primitive voca- 

 bles which have been adverted to, something very like a demonstra- 

 tion of the Mongolidan affinities of the Caucasians, though I would 

 be understood to speak with a due sense of the disqualifications inse- 

 parable from my secluded position and want of access to books. I 

 subjoin Latham's sample of the construction of the Circassian lan- 

 guage, with its equivalent in Gyarung. 



* I give to my father the horse.' 



Circassian — Sara s-ab 



I my father 



Gyarung — Ngare* nga-pe 

 I my father 



1 In the house are two doors' is, in like manner, ' house two doors' 

 in the Circassian and Gyarung tongues. 



The plural sign, kwe in Circassian, mye or kamyef in Gyarung, is 

 in both languages alike " the beginning and end of declension." 



The following list of Circassian and Gyarung pronouns may facili- 

 tate the reader's apprehension. 



I Thou He 



Circassian pronouns — Sa-ra. Wa-ra U-i. 



Gyarung pronouns — JNga. Nan-re. Wa-tu. 



The same conjoined with a noun. 



Circassian.! — S-ab W-ab. T-ab. ") •»«- m, u- r ,, 



Gyardng.-Nga-pe. Na-pe. Wa-pe. j M ?> ^' Hls > father - 



* Ra suffix subjoined for illustration though not in use with this person. See 

 prior note. 



f Ka is the prefix, appended as usual. I have already remarked that the Gya- 

 rung tongue is distinguished among its allies by its extensive employment of this 

 class of particles. The Burmese tongue makes less use of them, and in its mya, 

 much many, we have the Gyarung plural sign, mye, vel Ka-mye\ The Suanic 

 Mare and Georgian K'mari for man, afford a precise Caucasian equivalent quoad 

 the servile ka, showing it to be dropt or retained according to circumstances or to 

 dialects in Caucasus. 



% Ab, father — Pe, father, less the prefix. 



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