HILL TRIBES OF FORMOSA. . 201 
ing right down to South Cape, the dialects, I understand, are more 
numerous and varied even than in the north. 
Jf an accurate examination of certain representative dialects of 
north and south, i.e.. the languages spoken by the largest tribes, 
were made, and compared with other savage dialects spoken in the 
Philippines, Borneo, Java, Papua and Polynesian Islands, it would 
afford perhaps the means of proving that an affinity existed, and 
consequently a kindred origin, with the primary inhabitants of 
some of those countries. The Pepowhan language is full of words 
pronounced almost like, and meaning the same as, words and nume- 
rals used by Malays and inhabitants of New Zealand, Madagas- 
ear, Java, Philippines and many of the Polynesian Islands, and on 
‘reference to Pricuarn’s “ Physical History of Man,’ * I notice one 
or two Tangdo words, which resemble oe words to be found 
in many of the dialects of other islands. 
I extract a few words herewith and give the comparisons :— 
English. Tangao. Comparison. 
One Kaw toh or (Kota hai (Easter Island) 
K6 toh (Kata he (New Zealand) 
( Pai too (Batta) 
| Pitee (Java) 
Seven Tea < Pita (Philippines) 
| Pito (Manila) 
| Ifei too (Madagascar) 
and from other vocabularies at hand, I understand also that in the 
Fini dialect it is Pitt, and in Maori Witi, and in Guham Fiti. 
English. Tangdao. Comparison. 
Silver or Pid lah or ( Perak (Malay) 
Money Pi lah ( Pi lak (Tagala Bisaya) 
ih: TT kit (Ta bakit (Tagala Bisaya) 
Tobacco Ta ma kit ( Tam ba kut+ (Malay) 
Blood La bi or RA bi = Rah (Malagasi, Javanese) 
( Boo acha (Friendly Isles) 
Hog (wild) Bi wik Bia ka (Tonga) 
| Pi a ka (Marquesas) 
Male, Boy  Walaki Lake ee Malay)” a 
alay 
Drunk Ma bt sok or Ma bik (Malay) 
Ba sok 
eel. sect. VI.,_p. 317. 
} [These words are merely imitations of the word found, in slightly differin g 
forms, in most European languages—tobacco. Portuguese tubaco.—Eb. | 
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