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itfl not being archaic even in The identity of the Sok pa and 

 Newar pronouns is also consistent with its recent introduction. 

 But the Bhotian form^ its connecLion with the 3ril and ibo arcbaic 

 Chinese character of the latter^ make it probable that the west 

 Tibetan system is archaically connected with Scythic a8 well as 

 Chinese. The other evidences of an archaic connection witb 

 Scythic are too numerous to render the presence of a 2nd pron. 

 anelagQUs to the Scythic anomalous. That the connection be- 

 tween the 2nd and 3rd pronouns h Scythic will appear by com- 

 paring the Thochu kwa, kwe 2nd, kwan^ tha-cha 3d ; Bhoc« 

 khyc^, khe 2iidf kho, ku 3rd ; Lhopachhu2nd,kho 3rd ; Lepcha 

 hau 2d, heu 3rd ; Serpa khyo 2d, khwo 3d ; Limbu khe-n^ 2nd, 

 khu-n^ 3rdi Kiranti kha.-na (Newar chha) 2d, mo-ko 3rd j with 

 the Mongolian chha 2nd, iha 3rd of Sokpa j the Turkish ghen, 

 -ken,-gen (verbal) 2nd, kini 3rd of Yakut), sin 2nd, kin, •sin-si, -i 

 3rd of Osmanii kc; with the Tungusian si 2nd (i, p/.)j tche 3rd of 

 Kanchu, si, sin, a, 2nd, in, (pi. tin) 3rd of Nyertshnisk j with th© 

 Ugrian sina, sa, si, ton, tin, le, d, t, k, <&c 2nd, han, nsa, sa, son, 

 eya, tic^a, s, si, t, d, ka, ja 3rd j and with the Samoiede tan 2nd, 

 taw, ta^i 3rd, pw-dar 2nd, pw-da 3id, -t, -th, -d, -dh, -r, 2nd and 

 drd. 



The same root ia common as a demonstrative, relative, interro- 

 gative and locative in tlie Chinese and Ti be to *Ultra Indian vocabu- 

 laries. Thitf* Isz, che Kwan-hwa, ti Shanghai, chi Tie-chiu, 

 chit, chia Hok-kien, koi Kwangtnng ; cha Thochu, chi-di Gyar,, 

 thu Many., wo-chu Takpa, de, di, re Bhot. kc, kon Limbu, 

 chun Murmi, tho Newar, chn» yo Gurung. " That,' ki Kwan- 

 bwa, i, ku Shanghai, dcng Kwang-tung, tha Thochu, wo-tho 

 Takp. (wa Hok-kien, pi Kwan-hwa), gua-thu Many., de, re 

 Bhot, &c, khen Limbu. " Who,'* shui, shii, sa, si sui, chi chui, 

 ti tiang kc Chinese. " Which su Thoch., Gyar., Hor., Many., 

 Takp., gang, khangi, ka-di Bhot. &c, kha, ko Kir., kha Mnrm., 

 gn, su Newar, su Garung, koa Magar. " IVfiat 1 *' thu Gyar., si 

 Takp. achin Horp., chi Bhol., kliang, kan Bhot, shu, cbhu, ta, 

 the, di, de, tigi, hi Himalayan. The guttural forms are Bhoto- 

 Himalayan (Bliotian, Limbu, Kiranti, Murini, Magar). Forma in 

 u are found in Manyak, Gyarung, and Horpa, aa well as in Bhoto- 

 Himalayan. The slender forms in e, i, it will bo remarked, arc 

 also cuirent in Bholian. 



