):th\(»t.iuiv till-: tN)H>-» A<;ini i-lanus. 



til 



— m -m. -(% -/). This irosili\; is vl early Drfuvirinn glosHJU-iulIy nnd 

 idiomaiticalJr.* ll^ ia not tbuud in the tTltramdian systems, save 

 ill some varieties of tlie common ternn wliieh Iiave a pjrent nppc.n'- 

 f\ni:e of being eoriti'act iotiH of the KoJ full Ibrm.^, aaii thus support 

 the opinion that the latter were the original. The system is based 

 on definitives or dcnionstrativeH like tlie Dravirian anil all theotliei* 

 aivliaie Aao-African Kvatemti, and a.s the saint' dcKnitivoci were com- 

 inoia to moat of the archiiie formations, the Kul terms, like the S. 

 Dravirian, present many resendjlimces to foreign nimieralrt. Theae 

 will be found in Appendix A to the next eliapter. In tliisj place 

 I will enquire how far the Kol terms are reUited to the South 

 Dravirian. 



TliG root for I ia mo, which contracts to m Ijy the cliaion of the 

 vowel before the vowel of the postfix (mo-ji, m-ifi, m-^ff, m-irt-r/, 

 ui-i-(///, t ni-/. Tlie Uhmiiulian and Penismular forma preserve 

 the labial vrrxvi (o. w,) and in some eases rejuuants of the Kol 

 poatiixeifj po Augami Naga, bo Karen, tnuo, ma-t Mou, mo-c 

 Kambojan, Ka, Chong, mo-^ Auam, nni i Biinui. The root, as we 

 have seen, is preserved with the hibials m, h, v^ p, and with the 



A reiumint of ih(^ mfnlilli«t Botnh (iatigetrc or tii'iigiil ^li visum nt (lie a»ident Dravi- 

 rian moK. Tiu'ir tJfMt<-ctie iHtrullariti.-s of jt Kecon fiiry kind iinifiL )i;iv« Ijceu oj" 

 niucii lat*T tnh^m iKmi lUf {iidt S|imiil <il Dinvirijin t^i tJiiM<;i hviiiil, IW llietaily 

 (nrniA tit' tit-? jtioiuMitiii ihnn I in AustnilUi iiw [In* \ni ii Ih-avhhvii. TJie iiuiuensli 

 raniiot Itf exjjliii)ie<l us n nivm dialrclic vuriutitm oftln; SouLli l>mvinaii, — t>ut it Is 

 ii» Ih* rrmarlitjil tluit IIhj J^outli liravlriun il*!vebpeLl iiM«i(n";il^Hy!it«iii ifself Itas no 

 flnJm to sliiiut oti tlie sumt; airlmic fbttlin;;! a* rli« proii'>iirus. Tlw »|uinaiy syslm 

 vvati nut Iji Kxiareote whni tiu; fonimtioii ilrat uprtiwl widi its }ir(i[)i*r |injtnmiis, 

 tiiit) Adoutfsiii. Tlie gnnrrtl <*lmmi'ter ofKo! sIihwh that Imiixuiyt^ must Imvtf 

 ♦'viatiKl aa r af'paruti; one h'nii a very lennxe fwriaiL Tla-re JwiSiiUiuve Ihich at 

 Itrast two Kmar, tm«l JinlKiicntlLrit Dmviriiin isatJ uii op races, tho. iioutin-m, nnw 

 riMinsR'nlL'd by tJie ttond-Taiuil (iHOjili'^ii nml innj^aiagea, ami lliu tlan^ettc or lieiieal, 

 now repriJscntL-il liv Kol. Tin- jHissi i'ion iiy tfiii Utlter of a soiucwljal peculiar 

 numeral syateni, ahhoiwli sullicienliy n-'inarkiililu eircuiuijianc.', is hy iiu m(?aaa 

 niirnunltsuis, eapecially if ihe rac« occuweti llio lower (inn-^tH ami wnre a raadtime 

 and eradlng people. Tli« ninre nmrketj devintionu vt Kol iVom thv li.»mo<ri'iiuity of 

 (lie Dravirinn syatiim rtf pronouns Btiii numL-mls HpiH'Ur lo ha relcrdWu to iht; 

 ethnic revolution occasioned in tliu Gungttic basin by the entrance ol" t lie Chiuu- 

 UlrmJadiiin and Cliinn-Tlbetjin lace. 



• In Suutli Oraviiian it orciirw nndcr tlie fomis -t/ft or -m, •ij/t, i/o -a, • or -t. 

 The fact of KoS diiilects taking one of 'the coinnion DmvJmn poascssives in 

 their nunicraid and tlie Bouthern group taking? auolht-r, ont; of tlio*e which 

 esiahlish an aroimic s^'paralion of the two branches. Botii systems go back to a 

 iierlnd prior to ihu concretion of Die poaaeaaives with Uieudmerftl roots. 



t Tlie supuniddwl dental ( -rf, -dh) appears to be the Kol poisessive and ita 

 preecnce implied that the other posaeafliTe -w, -i bad become concreted with the 

 root. It is i-eraarkftblo tbat the Btahui term for 3 has a aimikr secondary dental, 

 mu-si-f (tmwi b-ing obvioujjly a variation of the Dravirian tnu-JiTul.) The 

 Telugu vfi-ka-ti, lim also a secondary -tL The excepUoaal ,Kol -d,-tiA probably 

 indiwHes the hiflueace of a B, Dravirian Olalcct, Tlic Anaia vm-t preserves tlie 



