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acquUition as in the Turkish h-iz-ler "we," e-iz-ler **yott"*. Tlie 

 DraTii-ian -kal, ga[, -ngal, -kulu, Dhimal-galai; Naga-khala, kara 

 combina two of the roots* r without the h \s Dravirian ae 

 wett as ScythiCy and common in Ultraindo-Gangetic languages 

 e. g. Takpa -ra, Abor -lu, Bhiniat -a/, -c/, Mikii- -It, Garo, Mirr, 

 Serpa -raf^f Bengali -era. These forms and those in n are varia- 

 tions of the same root. 



There are two possessives -chi and -k, Chi is Chinese -ti, Serpa 

 -li, Tengsa Naga -chi, Dravir ian -<li, -ti &c. The posaeseive A,— 

 which may be radically theBame as that in ch, t — is Chinese ko, 

 ku, keu &c, Ehotian -kye, -gi, -hi, &c, Takpa -kn. It is very 

 common in the Ultraindo*Gangetic vocahuWies ko, ku, ke, ki, ka 

 &c Ex. of the Thochu possesstves, ka-A-cAt "juine," kwe -k-chi 

 ** thine " iha^-k'chit kwana-ft-cfti " his, ** chi*ku<»i " ours, " kwa-ni- 

 kvi-h " yours/' tha-ku-A " theirs." 



4. Qyarung. 

 The Gyarung pronouns are^ 



1st npfa, nga-yo. Horpa, Bholian, Narasang Naga Kaeia, Bur- 

 man \ Murmi, Gurung, Magar, Serpa. The Chinese form is ngo 

 found in Abor-Miri and wilb the consonant g«ttural:eed in Lep- 

 cha, Sun war and Milchanang (go, gtj). 



2d, nan-re, naf- This pronoun like the Manyak no, differs 

 from the Bhotian and Tliochu. It is a variety of the Chinese ni 

 (also Horpa) found in the Shanghai dialect na, nong and in the 

 ancient Kwan-hwa nai, nei. It is also Ugrian in different Chinese 

 forms, (nan, nei, num, ^y^)» the slender Chinese and 



Ugrian forms ni, ni-n it is Dravirian and AuBtralian. The 

 varieties na and nu are also found in Draviro-Auslralian- The 

 Gyarung forms nan, na are the common Uilraindo-Gangeiic ones, 

 nan, (more frequently nang), ngar, nga, na. From the great and 

 wide prevalence of the forms in a, an, they appear to have 

 preceded the dissemination of the Manyak Tarieiy no. 



• TI1I5 merely meclianical heaptng of particles is » Scythic liafeit imd sol merely 

 Tatar and Tibetan. Thus in (he Hunpajrfan in-i^e-n-A *' our" the pronuminal 

 rtmt occurs twice, m and o, and each time with a different plural postfix, -i, -^Jt^ 

 the two being connected by the pouessive particle, e. 



t ^1 Id given In tira Voc. as the poss. prefix ua I rorro, but this appeara to be & 

 misprint as Mr Hodgsgneliwwhere (p. 33) apeaku of na aa the posa. 



