ETHKOLOOY OF THK IN DO-PACIFIC INLANDS. 2U 



5. Manyak. 

 The Man yak pronouns are j — 



1st, a J a contraction of the Tibelo-Ultraindian nga, ang» ak &c 

 found nbo in Naga (Angami and Mozome Angami) and (in the 

 pL) in Mikir. 



2d, no ; a variation of the more prevalent Sifan-UItraindian na 

 (Chinese) such as occtu's in Chinese (nong) and Dravirian dialects 

 (mi, uti). The same variety is found in Abor, Deoria Chutia, 

 and Naga (Angami and M, Angami), The 3d pron. thi is Chi- 

 nese (Gyami has ilie broad form of Chinese, tha). The same 

 variety ia possessed by Gunmg, and a sUglit modification of it by 

 Murmi the ; Naga ate. 



The pluml postfixes -dur (whence Bodo-ohur). The root is 

 the samo as in the Mongolian -od &c (Chinese tu Burraan to, do, 

 euphonic) with final -r as in the Mongol, Turkish and Thochu na-r 

 la-r, k-la-r, But it is directly referable to an archaic Scythic form 

 of the numeral 2, current in Tungusian, djur, dsur, juo and Cau- 

 casian 2ur (Lazian), and preserved also in 4, tliat is 2 dual, in 

 Turkish dor-i, tuor-?, Mongolian 6.\iv-ban (Sokpa tir-&a), and Indo- 

 European Aa-tvar-a^, /te-tur-i*, j»e-dwar &c. In the current Mon- 

 golian 2 it exists under the form yur, yor (ko-yor, in Sokpa ho* 

 yur). Manyak lias also a dual form of the let pronoun, a^'«. 

 The postfix j a is evidently a variation of the same numeral as in tiie 

 Manchu juo. The use of the Tatar numeral root 2 as a dual and 

 plui'al postfix cannot be referred to any recent era of that forma- 

 tion. It points at an archaic connection between it and the Tibe- 

 tan. The use of a dual form distinct from the pluml is itself a 

 piece of concurrent evidence, for the dual is wanting in the Tatar 

 languages in their present form although preserved in some lan- 

 guages of the Ugro-Fin branch of Scythic (Lap, Kamass, Ostiak, 

 Samoiede, ante p. 22). The origin of some of the most widely 

 prevalent plural particles in the numeral 2 h^ been noticed in 

 other portions of this enquiry. 



The possessive \s -i or -e which is Scythic -i, -e, (Mongolian and 

 Manchu -i) Tibetan -i &c, Burman -i, Dravirian -i, -e. 



6, TaJcpa. 



It is not quite clear whether this dialect is spoken in any portion 

 of the northern side of the Himalayas. The Towung raj is on 



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