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^TmghQQY OF THE INBOPAGIFIO ISLAND^. 



vangkiiQg Malay, Javan. &o. 

 uwaug Maglndanau 

 wanga Viti 

 vangka „ 

 wunar^i R<;deoar B. 

 ^afung^ Polynesian 

 fafang Ratuma 

 nuauk Malicola 

 fa}k Arabic 

 bitra Maiidingo ^ 



The rooi bur^ bul^ in Lhg Arabic zumbulj zurabur, Mahrah 

 iimbur. 



penai Aino, a " batJar. " 



funil „ 

 Tlie third Dravimn word for boat, doni, diinga, dingi &c ap- 

 puars to bo much more moderu than the oihers — tor it has made 

 but slight progre&sj iu Aaonesia compartfd with them— and more 

 laodern than the E. African and Chino-Anam affinities would 

 have lad m to infer. The subjoiucd table shows what is evidently 

 its true derivation. It is oue of the Tibeto-Ullraindian acquiat- 

 tions of the Indian vocabalar ies. Thu chain of connection between 

 the Tibetau root rii and th^i Gangetic danga thr-ough the North 

 UUraindian forms is clear, and it would certainly have been 

 more complete if the vocable Imd not been replaced in several of 

 the eastern Gangetic languages by the Sanskrit nan (Bengali 

 nauka, Hindi, Bodo nau, Dhimal nawar, Lepcha narar, Male naye, 

 Kiranti nava, Sec.) The Kaniataka doni and the Bengali and 

 Scindian dingi show a considerable departure from the prevalent 

 and otherwise persistent forin«* The E, African donie &c may 

 raise some doubt as to the Karnataka term being merely a dialec- 

 tic variation of the adjacent donga, dongo. But it is probable 

 that the word wns borrowed by the Saumalis from Western Indian 

 navigators, for it appears to be confined to them and the allied 

 tribes, Along the east coast of Africa, in Madagascar, amongst 

 the Zimbian nations and far into the interior of central Atrfcn, 

 8eraitic words for *' ghip" and bont " are prevalent. In Suaheli 

 we find jojnbo, in Mafaf[fl«y ^miUo (the Mahrali Pambu) ; jahasi 

 in Kiuika^ zuhusi in Kip^jkomj j duu, (aud fl/ij«ffe, pfobaljly 



