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Euskarian in the Scythic, Cauctgmn and Seraitico-Libyaa 

 characters of its pronominal system has necessarily Draviro- 

 Austmlian affiutties also. The transition tendency is archaic Semi- 

 tico-Libyiin, Georgian, Zimbian, Australian, and American. Tlio 

 roots are varied and n is found in both the 1st and 2nd pro- 

 nouns, but wtjhout indicating any special connectioti with Dra- 

 viro- Australian, 



The Zimbian pronominal system is in many respects even richer 

 than the Australian, but the roots are Scylhic and Caucaso-Yenis* 

 cian combined with Scmitico-Lihyan and numerous as the general 

 affinities are, there are no special ones with Draviro- Australian. 



It is only in Araericnn that we find examples atonco of a free 

 find nittUiform combination of pronominal elements similar to iho 

 earlier Draviro- Asonesian, and of ey stems which, with this archaic 

 richness of terms, preserve the Chino-Dravirian roots. In some 

 American langua(j;es tlie extent to which pronouns combino with 

 each other and with different definitives is stil! greater than in th^i 

 o»iilyi»g or inaular members of the Draviro-Australian formation. 

 As iraces of a simlhir primitive freedom of combination, are found 

 in most of the harmonic Aso- African systems, it is probable that a 

 pronominal development analog'ous to the American was the 

 nltimale source of the Scythico-Iranian, Semitico-African &c. and 

 that the remotest and moat sequestered branch of the Indo-Asoiie- 

 sian formation lias remained more faithful to it than the exposed 

 continental systems. 



The close connection between the general structure and ideology 

 of the Dravirian and Scythic formations and the large glossarial 

 iiffiniiy give additional impoitance to the fact that the Draviriaa 

 pronouns are not the predominant Scylhic ones. The prevalent 

 Scylhic Ut poison is a labial, ma, mi, bif &c, and the 2nd a dental, 

 *fi, ,sv, tL These are Iranian and Caucasian, the 1st being also 

 found in Zimbian and the 2nd in SemiticO'Libyan, N, E. Asiatic, 

 and American langu^jges. Both are evidently very archaic, but 

 their dittWion over the Iranian, Scythic, and coiiuected African 

 area mnst have been later than the spread of the Draviro- Austra- 

 lian and allied American terms wliieh centre in the Chinese. The 

 fact of Ihe latter being fourni in widely separated and otillyiiigclfujic 

 provinces^ America, N. K Asia, Africa; S. Indiii, AuaUalia— 



