9, Th« Telufru tommidi mnut !»e te-rai-rft, i.e. rm-dtfnr If) oa in tf.n/- 

 mi-dt 8, and to, a dUtinct root for 1, presen'td al:iio in the Clieiitsu to-tt, 

 8, and twrre^iJOiiditip with the Dmv. dentsul ;jd pron. aud dvL (p. 5t>), 



The Kd a-r of 9 has a for 1, as ia the S. Drav. ti. 



The idenl.itic*tion of the S. Di*av. on 1 w ith vo.n, and ara 3 with be.ra 

 &c. p>niplet«^ the proof of tho agrt^ement betH-e«8 the hasin f-yi^tems of 8. 

 PraTiriun mid of ViridjAii, and btitwa;n both and the primitive luhiul 

 mtitem prtjserved in AuHtrdian. Iji its tirst fonn the sjst<?m was simply 

 toe labial deliiiitive^ or th« labial and Jiquid, rc|>C'tUt;d or t-xirii pounded. 



It ia dear that the liquid in ta ra, bLrji, Sec. 2, is vixy ardjaitr, aud that 

 it early postw^siMid a. matiudi iiiunera] iknd pluiid force, in tlie Seuiito- 

 African and ♦Stythic eysl^iDs*, in which tiie saxne compound was tlxe 

 ptiudpal tti'chaic numt^ral ntuitt!, f he hijutd, diuripng* to the Milnkint \'c., 

 liaa been more atublethan tlie labial iiiitiM I, and there are strong reaBona 

 for refjardin^r it as* the ehMeiitial dement in 2. See App. to Sec. 6 of ch, v.^ 

 ^fic Sctniik mid AJriciUt ^'unurtds, pp. 18| Itt, 4^. JSee also ibe 2a 

 Uote supra p. v. 



III. Miscellaneous Words ( pp. 78 to ltf3.) 



The remtifk m to ilie Drsiviriau affinities of the eaatern vocabula- 

 ries of Ixania—Paiditu -Sec. — hiis been corroborated bj- Mr. 5orna, who, in 

 hiii edition of Dr. rni-hard^±i N^atural Hii^tAJty «f Man^ i, 171, doubtii the 

 , AritinchaJTicter a.scrihed by Pridiard to Pashtu. 



this seetiou but weie inserted iu the game number of the Journal, They 

 •hould com© in on jiufje 104 and precede the para- commeiMring' **Tlie 

 following' are iUustrudonw/rom Jj^mttito-Lihyan, " Ac ] 



Ab tho Suythic lan^fnajfes ttpj»eiir to have alway.-* been located in Upper 

 Ahia, and they ntill preserve a lorm that allieH tbeni ckw^el.v bofh with th« 

 monosvlialjic and with all the harmonic hin^'na>r«ij, it in jirobable that the 

 mother tongtiea of the more oiiilf kti^ and widely ttepiiruti'd fumilieid of 

 tlie VV orld were iiitiiiiately allied in their };llu«sarti^& tv the primary t>cv* 

 thic oneji. A eomparbon of tlie Tariout* Stythie names for wme of tJie 

 |mrt.- 1 f the body umy thua he considered a^i the first at^'p towards a-^cer- 

 taiuiii^ the true relutiontf of ttiie tiame^t fur the^ame objects in any of tho 

 ether families, a* the Dravirian or Bniviro-Austi-alian. 



A very slif^hl examination of the iky thic nainei* for the parts of the bcdr 

 ahowii tliat we are dealing wiiJi one really primitives vooibulary, whiot 

 bait »utfert>d dialectic ehangea almotit vitbout limit. The ^me primuiy 

 roots are tmind in all the lin^ua^ from the Kamchatkan to the unita- 

 rian. The same wscondary or dialectic forms and compoundi* are found 

 in tiumerouti vocal»uhuieei of the Mime and of difTejent group, Hometimei 

 prfservin*? the aujjte apphcation and aometiiacs varying in this respect. 

 Mo4t of these variation a fire ^videJitly iirchuic. TJj«y were formed in 

 that early stai^e of liinirua<;:e wlien fijed xjonventional names had not hf ett 

 ajipr*»jirijired to each part of the body, but nevf ral were de.scribed by the 

 aauie primitive rootn, tlie iiiBtijictjon» being indicated by tlxe addition of 

 other wordd and [iartly, in all probability, by j^estmre. In time various 

 dialectic dian^'va of the kiiid we have indicated twk plaoe, and the i*anj© 

 root became current in a multitude of tbrm^ and with different convention- 

 jal limit;! tion> of meanjruf. The hi:*tory of theije chants is probably too 

 Coin(t'«x to be completely i-ecovered, arul tlie bhjndjn^^ft and exUnctio'mof 

 dialticU tha( my*i JuAve ii»c(;urfi>d juiuc^ they commemxd Imve ob:M;ur«id 



