ON THE ORIGIN OF 



may have been the nature and origin of the Scythic influences by 

 which they were modified, those influences do not appear to have 

 been Dra vidian. In the pronouns of almost all the North-Indian 

 languages, the Scythian termination — the obscure 4 n * which forms 

 the final of most of the pronouns — is at once observed. We cannot 

 fail also to notice the entire disappearance of the nominative of the 

 Sanscrit, pronoun of the first person singular, and the substitution 

 for it of the Turkish i men* or * man:' but in no connexion, in no 

 number or case^ in no compound or verbal inflexion, do we see the 

 least trace of the peculiar personal pronouns of the Bravidian 

 family. Possibly, after all, further research may disclose the ex- 

 istence in the northern vernaculars of distinctively Dra, vidian forms 

 and roots % but their existence does not appear to me as yet to be 

 proved; for most of Dr. Stevenson's analogies take too wide a range, 

 and where they are supposed to be distinctively Dravidian, tbey 

 invariably disappear on examination. I conclude, therefore, that 

 the Un-Sanscrit portion of the northern languages cannot safely be 

 placed in the same category with the southern, except perhaps in 

 the sense of both being Scythian rather than ludo-European." 

 p. 42. 



In addition to the Grammatical relations which may be deduced 

 from the Lexical analogies, to which I have already alluded, I shall 

 now proceed with further proof, noticing in the course of my ob- 

 servations the coincidences to which Dr. Stevenson and Mr. Cald- 

 well have attracted attention. My remarks and investigations will 

 here be confined to (1) Formation of Words; (2) Nouns, — their 

 gender, number, declension, inflexional and periphrastic; (3) Gases, 

 the nominative, the vocative, the accusative, the instrumental, the 

 auxiliary, the dative, the genitive, the locative, and the ablative; (4) 

 Adjectives ; (5) Pronouns, — personal, intensive, demonstrative, and 

 interrogative; (6) Prepositions; (7) Verbs, — the negative, and 

 passive voices, the causal and auxiliary verb; (8) Conjugations, — the 

 present, past, and future tense, the participle and the infinitive; (9) 

 the Relative Participal Adjective, {10) Adverb*. 



