136 Professor Buhler or the Sanskrit Lmguals. 



of Unguals. To prove the former assertion it would be ne- 

 cessary to show, that the ancient Scandinavian tongue has 

 otherwise been influenced by the Lappish. The change of 

 ' T to f d' finds its analogy in the modern Sardinian, where 

 ' pellis' becomes pedde, pollex poddhigefa ). 



Besides the Teutonic languages the Sclavonic family 

 possesses unmistakeable Unguals. But here it is the ' Y 

 which has undergone this change. The 1 in Russian and Li- 

 anian — these are the only Sclavonic dialects which I 

 have heard spoken by and which I have learnt from 

 natives — sounds very frequently just like the Marathi 1 

 (b ), and this latter sound is undoubtedly lingual. In Rus- 

 sian this lingual) ' 1' has the effect of making an immediately 

 preceding ' d' also lingual, e. g. in dlugu. 



Georg Buhler. 



February 1864. 



(a) So buddiri (bollire) , casteddu (castello). The dd here sounds, 

 according to Diez ( Gram, der Roman. Sptachen i. 323), like English th. So 

 in Sicilian cavaddu, addevu, beddu, griddu for cavallo, allievo, bello, 

 grillo. — Ed. 



(b) I have not adverted before to the existence of the Vedic ( simply t 

 because it is nothing but a substitute for d, and Ih for dh if these letters 

 stand between two vowels. The Mahra^hi I seems not to owe its origin 

 to the same laws. 



