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from lite phonetic .mil stnTCtnral babits of other harmonic famih^s» 

 hut bfcanse it k exiant in tliese or in the monosyllabic fiimity in 

 a simihir fortrit aiihougb in ihe fui mei- it may be coiicretec] wiib k 

 definitive. The iuveatlgaiion of the propter glos^arial history of 

 tlm formathn as such, comnieMPGii uith the sepiinition of this batii* 

 portion of tbe vocabulary from that which haa been since accpiireif. 

 In .the Dravii'iun formation this appears to be les§ tliffiuuU than in 

 the Indo-EiiropHin. IJs basis is closer to the monosyllabic stage. 

 Tbe bagi^ of the hater is Scyihic to a large extent. 



The other foreign Asiatic aifiiiities of the Dravirian vocahularicfi 

 tDust in general be eitbcr of eitnilar origin to the common Saii?kri- 

 tic, thnt in, ileriveJ from languagpi* that inlrndcd into TnfJia from 

 Iraiiia prior to the Sanskrit era, or they must belong to the prc 

 Indian eia of ilie Draviro-Australian (ormation, and have accom- 

 panied it in its first advance acros>B the Indus, This does not 

 exclufle the derivation of a certfiin portion fjom visitors by geu, 

 and from ntiy alien northern and eastern trihes that may have 

 bordered the ilravirian province before ihe Tibcto-Ultruindians 

 crossed the monnUiiiis. There is no evidence of tbe existence of 

 guch Iribf?, or of the Dravirian having been preceded in Intlia by 

 any other formal ion from which words havijig extra-Indian affini- 

 ties cotdd have been borrowed* 



The affinities of the ■voeahnlftriea are much more numerous wiiJi 

 other foreign languages than with the Tibeto-Uhi'aindian. Thoy 

 are very viirious^ and tho^e with rcniore hmguages— as ibe Caitca- 

 elan »nd Korth Asiatic — ^are so abundant and direct, that they 

 sftbrtl similar evidence of the long independence aiul the archaic 

 position of the mother-formal ion to that which we have found in 

 an examination of the more generic words and particles. 



From the time i hat di if Uifive nations of higher civilisation than 

 tbe original Indo- Australian exrsteil to the west of tlie Iniius, a 

 flow of foreign words into the Indian vocabularies similar to iho 

 comparatively recent Arian current, must have bt-en going on, 

 age after age, and milleniuin after millenium. Each foreign, 

 mixed or native tribe that s[>read such words by its migrations 

 and conquest*, would become tbe cause of further movemenls and 

 diffusions. Tbe Dravirian lermi* relating to arts and usagts apper- 

 taining to a higher civilisatioQ than that of the Australians, STman*^9 



