LANGUAGES, &c. OF THE 



English. 



Newari, 



Bhotiya. 



Left, 



Kho, 



Yabba. 



A Month, 



La, 



Lawa and Dagwa. 



A Year, 



Dat'chi, 



Lochik. 



Day, 



Gniuh or Gni, 



(k.) Nain. 



Night, 



Cha, 



(K.) Chan. 



With regard to the Neivari words, I can venture to say they may be relied 

 on, though they differ somewhat from Kirkpatrick, whose vocabulary, made 

 in a hurry, exhibits, unavoidably, some errors, especially that of giving 

 Sanscrit words instead of the vernacular. It is remarkable that the Newars 

 (those that pretend to education, and those who are wholly illiterate) are apt, 

 on all occasions, to give to a stranger, a Sanscrit instead of their 

 own Ne'ifAri name, for any object to which their attention is called for 

 the purpose of naming it. This trick owes it origin partly to vanity, 

 and partly to the wish to be intelligible, which they fancy they cannot 

 be in speaking their own tongue. The real poverty of the Newari is also, 

 no doubt, another cause, and its want of words expressive of general ideas : 

 thus. Creation^ God, have no Newari names, and the Sanscrit ones have there- 

 fore been borrowed of necessity ; the like is true of, mankind, tov vfhich, as 

 well as for the two former words, I have not been able, after great pains, to 

 obtain any vernaculars. When a Newar would express the idea of God, with- 

 out resorting to Sanscrit, he is driven to periphrasis, and says Adjhi Deo, 

 which word is compounded of Adjhu, a Grandfather, and Deo, and thus, by 

 reverence for ancestors, he comes to reverence his maker, whom he calls, li- 

 terally, the father of his father, or the first father. 



As for the Bhotiya words, I cannot always vouch for them, few as they 

 are, having obtained them from a Lama, who was but little acquainted with 

 Newari or Parbattiya^ The twelfth word in the Newari column, or Water, is 

 given according to the dialects of the valley. Water is La, at Patan, Lojig 

 at Katmandu, and GwS, at Bhatgong ; these places being the capitals of as 

 many kingdoms before the Gorkha conquest. 



