APRIL — sfpt, 1858.] Kota Vocabulary, 



Work (I) -$1%^ a kekikapt 

 Worm *%>ih>iB puve. 



Y. 



43 



Yawn 



Year 



Yes 



Yesterday 

 Yield 

 Yoke 

 Young 



"S> dvat viltupe. 

 Lb ... x 



varshame. 



7>3Td~& hude. 



my are, 

 •^p^^-f) vobbakapt. 



sT 3 jauvane. 



The letter placed under other letters, for instance 

 © <! 5^%, has a sound peculiar to the Hill tribes, something 

 like ip in tamil, but not exactly so. It will be observed 

 how many words terminate in e The frequent occur- 



rence of this vowel, which the Kotas utter in a nasal 

 pronunciation, makes their language any thing but agreable 

 to the ear. 



OCCUPATION OF THE HILL TRIBES. 



Nearly the whole life of a Toda is spent in idle- 

 ness. Except milking the Buffaloes and making ghee from 

 the produce of their herds, no real work is done by the 

 Todas. Even the milk business is to the greater part 



