KTHNIOLOGi OF THli l.VDQ-PAaiFia ISL^KDS. 



fiularies of eastern Imnia aud the ludu?, r whether s]>oken hy 

 Seutitica-Iranian, Imliau or Scythic tribes, have also a consi- 

 «k*ral)!o >mmbtjr of non-Iranian vocables that arc DniTirian 

 iirif] in many eases Scythic or North AsiaUc also. The Dravirian 

 form* fiiomc'tiraes resemble those of the Indus and east Iranian 

 glossaries more closely than the Scythic. From this it may 

 be interred that they were received into India through the 

 prf-Ariaa Innj^aagrs of the Indus, becanse thu advance of the 

 Indo-European race into Eustem Irania and India must have cut 

 off the further diffusion of the native vocabwlariea to the eastward, 

 and arrested the re«Tu!;ir flow of Seythic words into Irania and 

 tlience into India, We may conclude that the Scyihic element of 

 ihe ancient Indian tribes and languages was iramediately received 

 from eastern Trs^nia at a period when it was mainly Seytliic. But 

 ihe Semitico-Africari element both in Dravirian and Iranian re- 

 quires us to believe either that the pre-Arian Scythicism of this 

 ]>rovince was mixed with S em itico- African ingredients, or that it 

 was, in hi turn, preceded by formations of a more archaic charac- 

 ter, having fundamental afllnitiea both with Scythic and Africo- 

 Semitic. In pre-Arian India the Africo-Semilic physical element 

 must be the most ancient, because it is chiefly marked in some of 

 the most soulhi-rly tribes and is found also in AtiStralia and 

 amongst the Papuans. The more decided or pure Scythic charac- 

 ter of the Brahui and several of the ancient Indian tribes of the 

 Dravirian formation must be referred to a later era when the 

 Hc^'thic race prevailed in eastern Irania. The fjartialty Afrieo- 

 Seraitic basis of the Drdvirian race and ianguagea and of the 

 Australian must belong to an east Iranian formation prioi' to that 

 represented by the Brahui. While therefore the latter ail'ords one 

 strong reason for believing that the more recent and pretlonjinant 

 Scytbie element of the Dravirian tribes and languages was derived 

 from tlie west and not from the north, the commencement of the 

 Serai lico- African forraulion immediately beyoud Belucliisiau andihe 

 immeuioriul existeuce of the Iranian in Irania, jdstify the conclu- 

 sion that those typical physical and linguistic traits of ihe Dravi- 

 riani which are not Scythic but rather African, Semitic or Ii^inian 

 were received at a still earlier period from the same province. 

 The Draviro-Auslrahan alliance^ when coiii?idercd in tfs pre- 



