24 The Ethnology of India. 



other like those Arabian and African languages which seem to form 

 their changes by variations in the body of the word. The Indian 

 Aboriginal languages, in common with the Hindustanee, the Turkish, 

 and some Arian tongues, seem to form declensions, conjugations, and 

 derivations, and to supply the place of what we call ' prepositions' by 

 post-positions and post-inflections. The verb or governing word comes 

 at the end of the sentence, instead of at the beginning as in English, 

 somewhat thus, our order being just reversed. 



Rem acu tetigit 



Cheez sui-se chuha 



Thing needle with touched he. 



The word ' Turanian,' as applied to an immense class of languages, 

 does not, however, imply any immediate connection with Thibetans 

 or Mongolians, from whom the Indian Aborigines are physically so 

 world-wide asunder. It is used in that very wide sense which in- 

 cludes not only all the Mongolian races, but all the Polynesian races, 

 and all the Negritoes of the Indian Archipelago, Australia, and Van 

 Diemen's land. A few vocables are said to be found, common to the 

 Dravidian tongues and to some other Turanian languages. But the 

 greatest resemblance is said to be not to the nearer Mongolians, but to 

 the most distant Finns, and it is at the same time admitted that there 

 are at least as great indications of a special connection with the 

 Australian Negritoes. It may then generally be said, that both in 

 physique and in the structure of their language, the Aborigines present 

 a type analogous to that of the Negritoes of the South Seas, Papuans, 

 Tasmanians and others, as well as to the nearer Negritoes of Malacca 

 and the Andamans. 



That which I have already said of the general character of the laws 

 and institutions of the Non- Arians as distinguished from the Arians, is 

 all that I can give as common to all these tribes. On this and many 

 other points, we require much more information. 



One tribe only I must except, as quite without and beyond the 

 general descriptions of the Aborigines which I have given, viz. the 

 Todas of the upper plateau of the Neilgherry hills. They are not 

 properly Hindoos, but no one who sees them, would for a moment 

 suppose that they belong to the Negrito races. They are evidently 

 Caucasians of a high type. In truth they are but a very small tribe ; the 





