ITHNOLOar OF TUB INDO-PACIFiC IlLjlNSti. 8.> 



in N. India. The influence of a Gangelic sttb-fortnatbn akiit to 

 ibti Kot is siill distiiicdy tt'dccablc iit InUoiiosia, :i3 wilE upprar in 

 a eiibsequent plactJ. 



Tfie remtianU of the Draviriaii formalioti in die other existing; 

 languages of Norlliecu Inditi, ami eepeclull/ of the G angelic 

 batiin, are of groat intportance for Asoncsian ethnology. It U 

 obvious that from tho first era of ilie Draviro-Auslralian movc- 

 uierit towards the further east, wlicn rude tribt-'S like the STuiang* 

 and Austmlinns roamed in the SuniliTbunds and crept along the 

 creeks on rafts or skins, to the period when civilised Dravirians 

 and Ultraindo-Dravirians navigated the coasts in paraviis and 

 ftpread their maritime art to the remolest islands of ihe Souih 

 Bea^ the Gangciic population must have been tlio principal, and, 

 in oeneraL the sole, digseminatora of Indian vocables in that 

 direction. Hence a knowledge of llie Gangetic tongues in every 

 age, and under eacli of the great changes they buve under- 

 gone from the iiifluence of intrusive formations or languages, 

 is essential to a thorough investigation of Aaonesian history, 

 and \\batever vestiges are recognijsed of their pre-Sanskritic con- 

 dition and possessiions have an immediate value for that parpose. 

 It has already be^ n remarked in an earlier page, that not only iho 

 Viitdvan dialects but the Marnlhi-Bengali or Sans^kritised lau- 

 guages of Northern India, present, in their non-Artun cSemout, 

 proportionately more numerous and direct affinities with the 

 Indonesian languages tlian the South Dravirian. The glossarial 

 and other afHnttles between ihe Asonesian formations and the 

 Dravirian will be separately examined. It is aaiFicient here to 

 indicate their existence and extent in proof of the greut antiquity 

 of the latter in India, and of its having exercised a preiloniiriant 

 influence in the eastern archifjelago not only prior to the Papnan 

 era but subsequent to if, t'ov ihe Malayu-PoIyiie-ian civilisaiioji 

 vs'us not purely Ultraindian or Chino-Tibelan but Gangetic or 

 Uraviro-Uitraindisjn.* 



* E^rerftl examples of tliis class of uflkiitiefl wjlj funnd in tlic afinexcil 

 bulary, I take u few words at miHlom fnm other cJaast-a. 



Htraiffht, 



Tlnj Drftvirian ^rttt^ mv^nttti, wrhjtt 'ism, b Ariait, TJnKaf/rt Ti.Iu<. h %ire\%A 

 nver Asifiutja froin Ti'im to t'olynf^fa, (e. rttula, f*(ii«, fiaii, tutonii, iui\i\ ice.) 

 It ia c<j)ii'pciefl wMU Tiht-fo-liimHlayiin liiaiig, tonijf, l«iml(t, lliuntii, Nhj(« 

 oflng, Anaiii thatiu. The Dmvirian nere, neiimn is |ji-oiiatK\ uJ^iii iht oviijiiml uf 

 ilie ImJoKcsian iio l-i-j Uir us, mmwru, Holy. jMMUire. 



