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STUNoLoor of tue ixdo-pacific islands 



unlil dif'-y ajjpeut' in the Jiess pmiliai- to the larvjumje of the land." 

 ( InU-oduciion (o Tulugu Gram, p, p, xtx, ii.) 



Mr Ellis, in bis note lo Mr Caiiipbeirs Pr<jrace, has the follow- 

 ing oljsorvaiktns nn iliis subjf^ct, " In lUc jirccodtnf^ extinct!?, llie 

 uuiiior, sujipm'teil by due aulhoriiy, teaches, that, r<\fcciing direct 

 and indirect derivatives from the Sanscrit, and words borrowed 

 from foreign Ian|j;uagcf>, wliat remains is the pute Jiative language 

 of the land: this couslilutes l!:o great body of ilie tongue urnl is 

 ca|jable of capressirijj every im-nlal and bodily operation, evojy 

 possible relation and existent thing; forj, with the csce[*tion of 

 some religious and technical (ernin, no word of Sanscrit derivation 

 is tieressan/ to the Ti Ingii. This pure native langiiagcof ihe hind, 

 allowing (or dialectic difffrences awd variations of termination, is 

 with the Teliigu, common to the Tamil, Cannadi, ond the other 

 dialects of southern India t this may be demonstmted by cominir- 

 ing the Dcsyam terms contained in the list taken by Vencaya from 

 the Appacaviyam, wilb iho terms expressive of the same idfas in 

 Tamil ;*n(l Cannndi. It has been ahesidy ybewn that the radicals 

 of these languages, mtttnth mufandis, are (he samf^ and this com- 

 parkon will .shew that the nalive terms in general use in each, also, 

 corresjTond." — (p. 18). "From the preceding extracts and I'emarka 

 on the composition of the Tflugu language, as respects terms, it 

 results that the language may he divided into four branches, of 

 which the foUowiiig is the natural order. Desyam or Atsu-Tclugii 

 pure fermsy constituting the basis of this laFiguage aad, generally, 

 afpo, of the other dialects of southern India; Anyadegyam fe?'ms 

 hor rowed from oihtr countries^ chiefly of the same derivation as 

 the preceding: Tatsamam, pure tFarm^'it terniSf the Telugn affixes 

 being sulistitutcd for those of the original language: Tadlthavam^ 

 Smucrtt derivaitfcs, received into the Telugu, direct, or through 

 one of the sijt Prdcritp, and in all instanees more or less corrapted. 

 The Gr^myatn (literally '^ihe m<iir'f tijalcct," from Grdmam Sans. 

 ft village) is not a conplituent portion of the language^, but is form- 

 ed from (he Atsu-Telugu by contraction, or by some permutation 

 of ibc li'ltcrs not aathoiistd by the rules of Grammar. The pro- 

 porliou of Atsu-Teliigu terms to those derived from every other 

 source hone-half; of Any a-demrm terms OMC-feK/A ; ofTatsamam 

 lei ins in general u*ie ihree-tnenikths ; and of Todbbavain termi 

 one quarter. 



