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more l ich in forms bccanse sim|>ler and loss concrcled. Jl lima 

 carries hack tlio Dravirian typo to a condilioti linrilacroiis to the 

 Ameiioan. To iitastratc these rnmarks by going into detaib 

 would he to anticipate eo far the ultimate aim of our examination 

 of Dravii'ian and tiie other S. E. Anian furrnation^, and I must 

 tliereforo rt^ft?r the reader to the suhsequcnt section on Australian. 



The iiiei'oly rrlossarial connection between the Dravirian and 

 the Ausiralian systems em braces tbo pronominal roots, several of 

 the agentivo poiiilfises, phiifil postfixes ami perhaps 8omo vocalic 

 fluxions of the rooU. The 2nd pronoun in several dialects ciianges 

 its proper vowel i to u in the duiil and ptur4il. In some the a of 

 the Isst jtronoun becomes e in the pluruK In Australian as in 

 Dravirian and other compound agghuinative and partially con- 

 creted systems, the pronoun is in some forms replaced or repre^ 

 senled hy other elements, definitive, numoval &c. 



The sexual distinction between the definitives n and I h not 

 found in the known Austraiian langnapjes or in Tarawan. Jhe 1st 

 and 2fiJ pronouns do not take sexual posiiBxe^, a fact telling 

 against any surmise that Bravirian may have bad tbem in an 

 early Btaj^e. 



The North Dravirian pronouns evidently preceded the Tiboto- 

 Burman in the Mon-Anam languages and in LTltraintlia generally. 

 They are preserved m the pre-Malayan basis of the languages of 

 the Malay Peninsula— Simang as well as BTaua— and Ibcy have 

 also spread to the Kastcrn Islands. The most common form of 

 the 1st pronoun is similar to the Kol ing- with its variations cing, 

 aint^ inire— which is a liquid mollification of the prevalent South 

 Dmvirian possessive en, oecnrring also in Uraon (cng). Both the 

 Sotitbi m and Northern Dravirian en, eng and the Kol form ing, 

 which is probably the original, are dispersed amongst the vocabula- 

 ries of South Ultruindia ami the Malay Peninsula, en STmangj eng 

 Ciiong, Kambojanj eing, ein,ye STmangj ain, oiu,yun Buma; oei, 

 oe Mou, In Indonesia tbe North UltrainJian form is perhaps found 

 in Sunda wing, but tins may be a Niha-Polynesiun prefix with the 

 true pronominal root elided* Tlie Timor ani and Kissa ha-\iiati 

 are probably connected with it. The Sumba nt/u-tig^a is South 

 Dravirian and Australian in form, but Goad has nn-na. The 

 prevalent Niha-Polyneaian forms of the 1st pronoun arc not Kul. 



