ETHKOLOOY OF TlIU INDO-PACIFIC iSlAPrr;^- 



forms are found, «i, no, nun. The same posBessi^-e is fonntl irr 

 feveral of ihe Gangetic langnages iDcladinij Li ml it, ( in ) and Bodo 

 Of the other Himalayan possossivefa, the most common, 

 found also in Male and Uraon, Ao, /«, ly/, &c is Tibet:* n and Chi- 

 nese and the rarer tlj chi, so, sei, sa &c ia Chineee (ti^ chi &c), 

 (see the Table), 



The transitive use of ka^ hu, in, du is very general (Iraninn, 

 Irar.o-Gangelic, (Hindi &c), Siamese, Chinese, Seythic, African, 

 Afionesian &c, including Australian). But nearly all the defini- 

 tives are so used. 



The Dravirian na, an, nu kc used as a definitive with pronouns 

 &c, is applied in the same mode, and also as a def. prefix, in Semi- 

 tico-Afncan and Asonesian languages. As n def. — separate, [ire- 

 fixed or postfiKctt — it is found also in Iranian, Semitic, Seyfhic 

 and American languages. The form in r, ?, is also common, atid 

 in some African, Asiatic and American languages it assumes ])ecu- 

 liar forms such as tl (S. African, Caucasian, K. E, Asian, Amo- 

 riean). The common masculine and inanimate or neuter 3rd pro- 

 noun is the dental definitive da, du, thii &c. 



The absence of the widely prevalent sibilant or aspirate defini- 

 tive might be considered as a peculiarify of the Dravirian forma- 

 tion, but il is frequently only a modification of the dentaf as in the 

 Scythic and Semitic 3rd pronoun in ta, &c 



The Toda aiku, Male atk, shews the dental becom ing aspirated 

 or half sibilant. In the Uraon as-nn (aii is a postf.) the change 

 is complete. The Magar kos is the sarne particle, and in ihe 

 Sunwar kari it appears to bo combined with a different one. TIio 

 Burman thUf su and the Murmi the, Gurung and Manyak llii, 

 Naga ate are variations of the same partiele, probably of Chinese 

 derivation. The root is so widely spread that it is hardly safe to 

 draw any conclusions as to the relations which i(a various forms 

 may indicate. The resemblance between the Dravirian and C hi- 

 nese pronominal roots is completed by the Chinese 3rd pr. 

 thi which however has representatives in moat of the formations of 

 the old world. 



The Dravirian va, 7ve, mi, of the 3rd pronoun (Australian ha, pa), 

 is the same as the common pa, bu, wa^ u kc. of the Tibcto-Ultra- 

 indian languages, and in both formations is directly connected 



* AntCf vol. viii, p, (jl , See the Tabic. 



