Yirinn woftls nre fonnil in Dhimni, some of ibc Manipuri diukdf 

 nnd Biirman. 



Tito ( JangetiG vocabularies of the Tibefo-ITItrainilmn and Tibc- 

 tfliiised c!as3 have many words Umt appear to fje arohnic Tndinn or 

 Draviro-AuBtraltan, although not now cxiant in (he Sonih Diavirian 

 JangiiagGst, Thn most western, as Tiberkad and Milfhanang, pre- 

 sent aifinitieg witlt Eastern Medo-Persian vocabularies, SoinG of 

 tbejr non-Tibe(an terms are clearly ancient Gangelic, for they are 

 foitnd in A*^oncsia. 



The affiniHea with any sin^jjle Aaonesian language are few, but 

 with the Asonesiun vocabularies as a whole ibey are perhaps mora 

 numerous than wiih those of any other province tjave the Scythic 

 in its widest range (Caueaso-Koriak). The Attstralian affijriJios 

 are far from buing ihe most numerous.. Dravitiau vocables are 

 found in all the Malay u-Polynesian languages, and at» several 

 Dra^iiian s)non3*m9 and vai ieUus of the same root are extant in 

 different vocabularies although not found m Au;>tralian, it ajipcai'^ 

 that the Di'avirian glossarial current not only set to the eastward in 

 the fiiit Australian ej>a, but continued to do so while ebungei^ were 

 taking place in the Indian languages themselves, or in the tlislri- 

 Ijuiion and predominance of the tribes who spoke them. In the 

 earlier ages of this current it must have chiefly flowed from 

 Bengal along the M'estern seaboard of Ultraindia, and it is to be 

 presumed that the dominant tribes and vocabularies of the Lower 

 Ganges were more or lt?ss changed from era to era by the intru* 

 8!on of other Draviriaii trihes from the interior, and by foreign 

 influences trunsmitted from Irania. In later periods they wero 

 affected not only by the ethnic current from Irania down tha 

 Gangetic basin, but by the Chino-Tibetan movement from the 

 eastward. As soon as navigation was sufficiently improved to 

 allow of a maritime intercourse along the coast of the Bay of 

 Bengal, the popule.iion and languages of the Lower Ganges 

 would be aifected by the powerful South Indian nations and by 

 foreign visitors from the west, while the continental and Singhalese 

 South Bravtrians theniseivea would shcn, for the fij-st time, be 

 enabled to carry on a direct intercourse with Ultraimlia and Indo- 

 nesia. It is probable, from glosaarial evidence, that ihe Dravi- 

 riaui were civilised and miU'itime before the Ariane prcdominaled 



