ITUNOLOaV OP THE ISDO-PACIFIC ISLANDS. 



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c\n-h\ Male preserves otlier varieties also^ fis om PI, (in addiiioii 

 to na-iTj) Qu'^-hi poss. Sing. In the Koi dialects the vowul cliaiigce 

 from e to i, ing, oiuf^, 'I'tig* ingc, TKegp forms appear to pre^orve 

 the original posseasives of South Draviriaij, to \vhtch in a laier 

 page I refer the e. It phoiihl alno he remarked that the vowelss 

 i, a are definitives anJ defifiitive pri'fixes in Kol as in Draviriari 

 generally. Compound vowela occur both as a simple definitive 

 and as a possesaive- Kol has ia or ya posa. ag in S* Dravirian 

 nnd it has ayo, ay, ai Sec a definitive or 3rd pronoun, idL-nticTil 

 with the Titluva 3rJ pronoun aye (so ayi-no^ "tijis"). It is foujifl 

 also in Male. Compare the poascsaivos ai-ffe Bhurnij, ahi-/i( Male 

 *'hU" kc, Tlio chantre of ai itilo e, or e into ai, k easy, Cor o is 

 but a condensed form of hi. 



Tlie Male and Uraon 2iul pronoun fs the South Dravirian ni, > 



iiirt Male, nien Uraon. The Khond \uu h Tuhiu / (pi.) which 

 again is a contraction of the Karnataka mnu. Gorid has the full 

 form with its own def. postfix in oblique forms, niA. 



Besidea thia form Gond has a peculiar aj^entivc form imma, to 

 which the Kol 2ntl pronoun is allied, am Bliumij, Mundala, uin 

 Ho, umge Sonihal (ami posa.) The Ko! duaUanU plurals present 

 further variations of this labial 2nd prononn, me, m, be, pe. Its 

 probable ori«i;in is adverted to further on. 



The Dravirian plural element m ia found in Khond, — anw "I," 

 nmu "we" inu *'thou," ml "yon"j Gond nxik niaA "wo,'* 

 nnna "I," mar "we"j so in the oblique forms of the second pro- 

 noun mh, S. m\fi, mok PI., Msile hm na-*«, o-m, "we," e-w-ki, 

 n&'fn-ki PI. poss., Uraon c-m-hi PI. poss. 



The Kol phi rats in m, &, p represent the Dravirian pin ml labial. 

 In the Ist prononn the rehitive plural takes the common plural 

 def. 'kf atid tlie absolute only has the labial, under the form ♦ 

 conformably with the South Dravirian idiom. 



It appears from these details tliat the original forma of the 



pronouns were na or nga **I" and ni "thou"; that m was a 



plural definitive originally generic but after ^vards restricted save in 



Toda to the 2nd pronoun and to the plural absolute of the Ist; and 



that the ordinary plurals of all the pronouns were formed by the 



plural definitives used with nouns. The form of the 1st pronoun in 



• In chap. TV. ^ 0. tUh rorin is mi i<leiriHfit;iJ wifli thn Dravirian plarab in m, 

 but it ia inle.'srrtitl tliat tlit liibinl eiuiniint re^wsents Lk', "yyu," 



