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and amongst thfse Dravirian rootti are foaiuL* Most of ili(?se aro 

 probably renumnls of the Umvirijin basis of the Noi-th Iiitlian 

 languages, like ihe atructuml trails and some of the particles 

 iiotlced in Seclion 7. 



The influence of Sanskrit on the goiilhern langnngca baa been 

 mucli smaller, bnt St is nevmheless consitlcrahle. On this subject 

 Mr Campbell haa romarkcJ: *' The third class of worJa wliich (i 

 generally mentioned by Dr Carey as "derived from the Sunga- 

 krita/' I hare named Samcrit corruptietis; it consists of worJs 

 whieh have passed ijito Teloogoo, either directly from the Samscrit, 

 or throtigb the medium of some of \ts corrupted diulecfs, such aa 

 the Pmcrit, and which, in order to be assimilated to the langnagQ 

 qf (he landf liave underfToiie radical alterations, by the elision, 

 insertion, addition, or subtraction of letleis. These changes have 

 been sonietimea carried so far, that it is difficult to trace any con- 

 nexion between the aJnltcrafed word and its original in Sanscrit/' 

 "The reader will find all words denoting the different parls 

 of the human frame, the various soHs of food or utensils in com- 

 mon use anjong the natives, ilie scvojal parts of their dress, the 

 compartments of their dwelling?, the degrees of affinity and con- 

 sanguinity peculiar to them, in short all terms expressive of primi- 

 tive ideas or of thingfs necessarily named in the earlier stages of 

 society, to belong to the pure Teloogoo or lanffuat/e of the land. 

 It is true, (so mixed have the two knguages now become) that 

 Sanscrit derimfwes or corruptions may, withont imjn'oiiritty, be 

 oceasionally used to denote some of these. This, however, is not 

 common ; tlic great bmly of Sanscrit words admitted ijito the 

 ];jiiguage cojjsists of abstract (erms, and of words connected with 

 fecience, religion, or law, as is the case, in a great degree, with the 

 Greek and Latin words incorporated with our own tongue: but 

 even such Sanscrit words as are thus introduced into Teloogoo are 

 sot allowed io retain their original forms, they undergo chang^jF, 

 and assume terminations and inileytians unknown to the Sanscri'* 

 and, except as foreign quotations, are never admitted into Teloogoo 



• ]>r SteTenson is stiil invealSgntin^ ihla suhjetit, Sincfi tlte earlier chaptcTS of 

 i\M paper weid puhlished two poiiicm* of a compamTive vocohiilnry oJ" iion-tSBna- 

 ki'lt wnrtt^ m the In'Jjan vemaculiirj^ havt; apptfaretJ 1u tliu Journak oi' ilie ttomtmy 

 Aritaltc iStfcitlA, V.4. iv p. p. 117, aiy (Hi'ii-iW), and tu tlie»e 1 may refcT my remd- 

 trv tor examflcs vi vocai>!e9 coiuTiion to the purer and to the S«n»kr]tJat<icI laagiiagw 



Itulia. 



