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continental representative. This development preserve* fea- 

 ture sot fount! in the Sanskrit or any of its modern derivatives, 

 or in any other Indian or Traiisimtian family, but which i* common 

 10 the Semitic, Greek, and several western Indo- European lan- 

 guages. I mean the use of the definite article, which gives to a 

 Polynesian speech a character so widely different from all the 

 other insular one*, that it appears a strange anomaly in a language 

 otherwise so completely Weianesian. The Khasia preserves another 

 archaic feature- common Id the Malayu- Polynesian and the majo- 

 rity of the African languages, the prcjjxing of its particles- The 

 surrounding languages nave all assimilated to the postpositional 

 system of the Tibetc-Burmese, and Tamulian groups, 



X must reserve my notices of the other regions, and can only 

 add generally, with reference to Transindis, that those portions 

 of it which have moat influenced the Archipelago appear to 

 present, 1st m Africo-Indian era ; 2nd an era in which Tibeto- 

 Anatn* tribes allied to those of India predominated, and in winch 

 the basin of the Ganges was united by boat navigation with 

 the east coast of the Bay of Bengal; 3rd, an era when the Mori race 



E>< dominated in maritime civilisation ; 4th, an era in which the 

 layama race, originally located between Chinese and Tibetan 

 tribes, having gradually spread, obtained a preponderance in 

 numbers and power y fttb, an era in which the Lau tribes issued 

 from the highlands of Yunan and spread themselves over the 

 upper parts of the Irawadi and Mekong basins, until, in recent 

 times, they extended to Asam on the one side and the Mala? 

 Peninsula and the lower basin of the Menani on the other. Each 

 of these will be considered with reference to Asianesian ethnology.f 



The great objection that I entertain to the exhibition of isolated 

 glo'sarial resemblances had determined me to omit any, but this 

 paper migbt appear incomplete without adding a few, not as an 

 evidence, or even as an illustration of what I have advanced, but 

 as an example of the kind of information furnished by the com* 

 parative vocabulary which U printing. 



western range of besini the proto- Aryan tribes probably first came In contact with 

 Tibetan Hin.alayana. 



• I *« flw led, tone veaw ago, to rccopnlv the peculiar connection of the 

 Anom villi the Indo-AtinneaUn race* on finding, when imongn the iie»tj»i 01 uukit 

 Pancuur In Malacca, that uneraiof their nan- Malay u word* were Annmete 'lbs 

 great Iran.- Indian sutinulty of tbe Anameati la vouched by a connection with ani- 

 ent Indian and Indo-iibKtan languages, as well as with tbe Aaianoi an. 



t Aj our know.edut? progrtaaea it will be biteretfiug 10 enquire what bnmo- 

 diata ejfecta tha different, moramcuta Into India and Ultrawdia bad aponAila- 

 utsik. Did the advance of the Tamil wibea in India and tbe JJ) una -a cam in 

 Traitatndia cause any increased migration oi the Indo-Atriran race* to the la* 

 binds? Did tbe pressure of tbe later Iranian on tbe earlier, and of tbe latter on 

 the Tlbeto-Indian population of the GnotfctJc basin, ceuee tbe Tloato-Iadiana 

 toorertlowjnto tbe adjacent region of Armcan and the Irawadid ! Did the biter 

 advance of the Burraeae and Lau races pre** the lnuo-Tibetan population of western 

 Trana- india into S primula ? 



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