61 THS WHK0L0GT OF TUH INDUW ARCH IPBLatfO. 



If there was a direct and regular communication between the 

 Africo-Indian family anil people of the same race in the west, prior 

 to the advent of the Tibeto-Anam family, it was cut off bv the 

 latter, who, continuing to move into the western islands, constantly 

 added fresh infusions of their languages to the now hybrid hut 

 mainly insular languages of their forerunners, while these were 

 diffused more sparingly, and mostly at second hand, through the 

 more easterly settlement*. Lastly, a later Indian influence* belongiug 

 to a far more advanced civilisation, flowed in a great stream Into 

 the western Archipelago and cut off that of the Irawadi, before its 

 linguistic operation had made much progress.^ As tin's happened 

 at a recent jicrkid, perhaps not much more than 2,000 years ago, 

 the Indonesian languages appear, with the exception of Indian 

 additions and some less important ones, to have been preserved in 

 nearly tlie same suite in which they were when die Mayama-Lau 

 influence was arrested. In the two extremities of the eastern chain, 

 the Formosa- Philipines and Australia, the tribes and languages of 

 the older family remain, and the Tibelo-Amimese tribrtj of the first 

 group retain these languages comparatively little modified by their 

 paternal ones.t In Melanesia the languages are probably still mainly 

 Africo-Indian also. The structure of the only one that has been 

 gramatically examined, that of Tanna, is complex and inflectional. 

 Strong features of the Africo-Indian structure are retained by some 

 of the Transjavan tribes. The western languages, and particularly 

 those nearest BurmJih-Siamese influence, such as the Malay, have 

 lost much of the complex Africo-Indian organism, and exhibit a 

 partial return to the simplicity of the former. It may be that th« 

 Myama and Thai emigrants into the Peninsula and Sumatra were, 

 from the first, so numerous as to prevent their completely losing 

 mm fatherland languages, and that thecolonicsthereahvays retained 

 much more of the words and forms of the latter than the more 

 eastern colonies. The more central of the latter, Celebes, the 

 Molulus and the allied S. E. ones, appear to be intermediate 

 between the western and the more permanent Africo-Indian. The 



form a community, u at Malacca. The mother hmjrne of the tbtt first AsUuwHnn 

 nmtai U Malayan wirh an tiwOxtan of cBS* "SJlta the vtinrnn™ 

 til- pe«emal ton««. r . uin.-d wirh difficulty. They by mamwtmtoi 

 wumi>rt wiio^ iMgaage beoonwa that of their children, rfut ptnont of the mix*! 

 race Om produce^a™ weferrvd by new antlers from China u wdl as by each 



♦ it J» probable that the veaseta of 



ntprnaU 



It J» probable that the ve**U of the Oodavery lone confined their fnrclm 

 SFCt^! SSL*? T T^ s of Bcn ^ lJ 10 tiw W» on Its eaitem nlde, 



gg™ 1 ladlan voyagtr* to Acheen to are more likely to have been fibujaleu than 



hi^^™ 1 f Amtra l l * %Bd P*p«an€si* to underrtand the character of the 

 Indo^AfrJeaaetmoftKo AAiifoidam, so -m-miut eo to the PhillnlnM mid aimilnr 

 — I lands to understand tlii^harac " " 



ptoce w e h&yc the atrong^t evidance that the Tibcio-Vmni race beaan with com" 

 ■^UettWmj on soae oftlierjvers, whence they bar* partially occupied the 



