BTHNOLOQT OF THE IITDO-FACITIC IlLAKSf. 



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2, 2 &c, but with Bome elisions, contraction and replacement!. 



In India and TJltramdia, only two systems remain of the ante- 

 Chineae era, the Dravirian and the Kol-Ultraindian — the latter 

 liowever proscnting two varieties, the Kol and the Mon. The Kol 

 IB quinary and denary like the South Dravirian, and it has been 

 formed from the same elements. But while the general method 

 la the same, even to the preservation of possessive or qualitive 

 postfixes, there is a deviation in the mode of forming one or two 

 terms, and the elements in the lower numbers are in some cases 

 differently applied. The two systems were therefore independently 

 formed from common materials at a very ancient period and before 

 the various elements had become concreted. 



The most archaic term for 1 appears to have been the labial vo, 

 mo^ mti, bo, po, ba, pa <fcc. It is found in Dravirian, Kol, Ul- 

 traindiaUj Auatraiian and a few other Asonesian languages. It ia 

 the definitive and 3rd pronoun common to Draviro-Australiau 

 with Sifan-Ultraindian. 



In all the dialects of the GJ-ondo-Tamulian branch of Dravirian, 

 aave Toda and Telugu, it has been superseded by another Dravi- 

 rian definitive, on, un, or, which is also found in Australian as a 

 3rd pronoun and unit. It occurs as a definitive and as the unit 

 in Lau and in van o us Asonesian systems. 



Australian has a third term, kol, kul, kc, which appears to be 

 preserved in the Kol 10. 



For 2 the S, Dravirian root appears to be a contracUon, ir, er 

 (en, re), euphonically vocalised into ira, era, (eno) before the con- 

 sonant of the possessive postfix. It enters into the Kol bar, XTl- 

 traindian bar, mar, and the Anstralian bul, pul, bula, bari &c. 

 In Australian it appears in I under the forms bar, wara, mara, 

 and in 3 as mur, bur, pur, mar. The variation of the vowel from 

 u to B which appears in the Kol and in some of the Australian 

 terms, is found also in South Dravirian higher number, as well 

 as in the postfixed definitive. The Australian terms show that 

 the Kol compound ia not a comparatively recent one, and a similar 

 inference may be drawn from the Dravirian 3, as well as from the 

 preservation of the same compound in the plural of the Dravirian 

 3rd pronoun. 



The S. Dravirian 3 is the labial unit repeated &a in other binary 



