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KTHNOl-OGY oF TKU INDO-PACIFIC 1$LAN0», 



Tlie pi m at postf. 'Clrnt^ has the form ^dag with BubBtantives. In 

 Lhopa it is contracted to-clia, and in stjioken Tibetan varied to -jo 

 or-njo. It would [irobably bo more correct to consider the final 

 -jnf Rs the common Tibetan final augmenl^ corresponding frequently 

 with the softer -n^, r of other languages of the alliance, but it 

 may be the guttural Scythic pi. def. aa in the Horpa ri-gi. Tlic 

 root chfl, da, jo is the widely prevalent Scytbico-Tibetan plural 

 particle. Comp. (be Scythic forma in t, k, g, d, e, cb, r, n, 

 1, all variations of t (ante vol. viii, p. 204), and correspond in 

 with the Cbrnepe ttr, en, shu, cliti, chung, chai, tang, teng, tse, 

 with the Mfliiyak -du-r, -ju, Bodo -chii-r, Barman -do, -to, Serpa 

 ra-n^^, Garo -ra-n^ da-j?^, Horpa ri-gi, Magar ri-k, Bengali di-g, 

 Tiberkhad a-ln-n^, Kinawari ta-jre, ta (in tam-she, ta-she, from the 

 Chinese double pi. tang-tse). The vowel of the spoken Tibe- 

 tan correeponde witb tbe Manyak du, ju, Lirobu yu, Bodo cbu, 

 Mongolian od, Chinese tu, Burm. to, do. The written foim raay 

 be referable to the Chinese tang;, like the Kinawari and Chang- 

 lo tam, but it is also Mongolian -da (Biiriate) and Manchu ta. 



The posB, -k(, gi, kyi, bi, yi is the common Gangetic, UUmin- 

 dian and N. Indian guttural found ako in Chinese, tih or teik, 

 che, te, ku, ko. kei, koi, ken, ge, e. It occurs in the adjacent 

 Tibetan dialect of Thochu,k. 



2. Horpa, 



Mr Hodgson informs us that the Hor-pa occupy the weateni 

 balf of Northern Tibet, and also a deal of Little Buebaria and 

 of Songaria, where they are denominated Kao-tse by the Chinese 

 and Ighnre (as would seem) by tbem&elvea," In southern Tibet 

 there are numerous scattered Hor-paa and Sok-pas as there are 

 many scattered Bod-pas in northern Tibet.*' (p. p. 122,123)* 

 Further on be remarks that on the evidence of his vocabulariea 

 the Sokfjo of the Tibetans are the Olet or Kalmak Mongolians of 

 RemusQt and Klaproth "whilst their confreres the Horpa are 

 almost us evidenrly Turkish, the Turltish affijiity of tbe latter being 

 inferred, not only from the vocables, but from the complex struc- 

 ture of Horpa verbs and from the quasi Arian physiognomy of the 

 .samples he has seem of the Horpa race." Proft*ssor M tiller has 

 remarked that by i!s pronouns and numerals, it is Biiotiya (i. o, 

 Tibeto-Ultraindian) and he has accordingly ranged it provisional- 



