KTHKOLOflT OF THE ISDO-PACIFIC IST.AXHS. 



tliyod Kr,y khe ,71. b not the prevalent Chmcse ui, na &c. 

 like the Si- fan and comntoii UUraindo-Gangetic terms. It 

 Appears to be an archaic Chinese or Chino-Scytbic form, and a 

 variety of the same Chino-Scytbic definitive that is used in Bhotian 

 as the 3rd prort. The Chinese ju, jo, may be a variety of the same 

 archaic form. The Sokpa broad form of the Scythic 2d pronoun 

 chha is identical with the Newari chha and the Kiranti k^na pre- 

 serves the same vowel.* The Bhoiian khe has the common slen- 

 der vowel of Scythic (i, e) and the same vowel is found in the N. 

 E, Tibetan dialect of Thochu kvve, in Limbu kbene and in Gurung 

 ken which preserve the Scythic pronominal postfix (comp, Yakuti 

 -ghen, -gen, -ke» and the current Scythic se«^ firij si«« &c.) The 

 Tboehu has also a form in a, kwa, correspond iiipr with the Sokpa, 

 Newar and Kiranti. In the Bbotian khyoil ilie root is khyo or 

 kho. T being a common Blmtian augment Kinuwari has keo/, 

 kherung in which the root h keo, khe. Serpa has kiiyo, khye. 

 The "df -t, of Bhotian and Kitiawari is a poslfix not found in tbo 

 2d pron. of other languages of the alliance, and only occurring in 

 the Ist prori- in the exceptional Bhotian honorific nyed, Ladak and 

 Kinawari Bhotian pi, net, in both of which it may be a form of 

 the plural dental and sibilant poslfijc (comp. en-eshe Tiberkhad). 

 In khyod it may be merely a Tibetan augment or postfixed defini- 

 tive, corri'Spondlng with the -t, -rf, */< found in some of the 

 Xibeto-Ultraindian varieties of the Chinese numeral. If not a 

 mere phonetic augment, it would appear to be a Scyihic tniit and 

 to correspond with the nasal postfix of the Scythic pronominal 

 system which occurs in Limbu khe-Jtc, Kiranti kha-n«, and Gnrung 

 ke-«. A simitar postfix was probably current in the Tibetan 

 dialect from which this form of the 2d pron. was derived. The 

 Bhotian rf, t may be merely a variation of n. In one of the 

 SamoieUe dialects a similar replacement of the Scythic -u hy 

 Lakes place, to^i (comp. the Ugrian to-n kc),f 



* In a later pni^e tlj« connwlion of the Saliptt pronoun with tlje Scythic on tl»e 

 ond side and the ribeia-Hinmluymi on the otlier is (;xuuihj^J. 



♦ The catrent Chino-Tibefan numerul 2 ia ihesAicK liqijul (if f. tliat formis the 

 find pron., li, iii, urii &c. But in the Tibeian 8 (-1, "1) a Ibnn of 2 occurs wbicli hot 

 « eonsiderable resemblancB to the Tihetim Snd pron. gyud, gyet,gye, hi Lepclia 

 kea, It tntiy however be merely the current -2 iiyja, Lu-pLlui nyet, Hwrman iihic 

 \viih the g~ pi ef, and n elided, tf }i>u^ gy*-, kea bti a Chintse dief. it U [tlmilar to 

 tlje unit preserved in 9 kiuj kycu s^c, Tlie eifhtciicu ofaa urcluic Chitieue dia- 

 lect in which the sainiiilef. aliglitlv varied or dou'«icd entered into 2 ;ij well as 1, 

 would he hi accordance with jjcyUuc and N. E. Asian anolog^y. 



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