ETHTTOLOGT 07 THE IimO-PACTriC ISLANDS. 



tlie upper habitable portion of the southern to the east of Bhutan. 

 But as it bas Bbotian dialocts on at leaai two sides, and ia politi- 

 cally and ethnically connected with Tibet and not with Asam, I 

 will give its pronouns and particles here. In its general character 

 it is more Sifan than Bhotian^ but it has many pui'ely Bhotiau 

 Tooables and even some Bhotian particle?, the presence of which 

 is explained by the long predominance of the Bhotians in this por- 

 tion of Tibet, their extension to the southward over Bhutan, their 

 conquest of the Takpa province, and the retenlton of it by the 

 Tibetan Bhot after their relinquish ment of Bhutan, 



1st pron. nge, nye. See the remarks on the e forma of Bhotian 

 &c. 



2nd ni, Chinese like Horpa, 



3rd pe, be, a current Chinese form, the Gyarung wa being a 

 variation of the same root. The plural postf. -ra is an element in 

 the Horpa -n-gi. The poss. -ku is one of the Chinese forms. 



7. Soh-pa 



I nottco thia vocabulary because it is the only Scythic one with 

 which any of the known Tibetan dialects are now in contact. 

 It is important also as the modern and existing illustration of one 

 of ibc great standing facts of the ethnology of Upper Asia, the 

 mutual ijifliicnce of Scythic and Tibeto-Cliinese, and it ficqiiircs a 

 glill greater interest when it is found that the partially Scythic 

 structure, phonology and glossary of the Tibetan disdects cannot 

 be ascribed to it and consc(]uently indicate an archaic connec- 

 tion with a different branch of Scythic. 



The Sok-pa vocabulary ia Mongolian. The 1st pron. mi, bi, 

 abn, is the common Scytliic labial and none of the Tibeto-Uitrain- 

 dian roots are related to it. The 2nd jn-on. chba, appears to be 

 connected with the guttural of Thochu, Bhotian and the Nipal 

 dialects. Newar has the same form chha, while Lhopa has cbhu. 

 As the Sokpa poss, has the form chhi-nj it is probable that it is a 

 variation of the Scythic si (com p. Buriate s'f, c*i &c in poss. s'i/i,. 

 e'ini &;c.) In Samoiede the prevalent vowel, i, becomes a, o, (ta«, 

 iindi &c) and some of the Ugrian dialects have a or o in the pi. 

 The variation of s and t to k takes place in Scythic languages in 

 the 2nd pron. as in other vocables. It is found in sotne of the 

 Ugrian, Samoiede and Yakuti fgrms. 



