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BTHjrOLOGT 0^ THE lyDO-PAClTIC ISLANJSB. 



lielpa to connect tlie Ciiino-Tibetan with tlie Scytliic. Tlie Climo* 

 Tibetan is non-Scythic in ita 1st and 2d pronouns but Scytbic iu 

 its 3d. Seytliic again may bo considered as Cbincae in its Sd as 

 well as 3d, for the 2d is radicaily the same definitive as the'Bd. 

 In Bhotian the 1st pron. is current Chinese, while t!ie 2d and 3d 

 are Chinese and ScHhic. It cannot be concluded that the more 

 prevalent of the existing forms ai*e the moat modem. With the 

 exception of those referable to the later emasculated phonolo^, all 

 the current vai'ietiea and others also may have characterised 

 diftercnt dialects and even become blended in the same dialect, in 

 very remote periods. 



Although the Chinese system differs from the Seythic in the 

 common root of the lat pron. it has also a labial root wUf wo, fu 

 Kwan-hwa, wa, no, u Tie-ehn, which is connected ^nth the Seythic 

 through the N. E. Asian and American systems. Comp. \vu, wan, 

 vvang, uonga Namollo and Eskioao ; nnguitr, o-ang-kiah, be, veea, 

 mii, vieh, mii Sious ; my, mu^ bu Kamachatkan (the roots) ; Tnka- 

 hiri ma.-tah; Japan vra-taksfor wa-taknsi, y^a-re^ wa^ffa ; Ost. ma- 

 tifot ; Samoiede mfl^#, hua-?», tno-di ; Ugrian mv^fyoij mo-n ; Sokpa 

 «bu ; and the slender Seythic and Indo-European mi, rsibi, bi, 

 ben, me» &e. Indo-European in its retention both of the guttu- 

 ral and labial definitives in the Ist pron. adheres with Chinese to 

 the primary habit more fuJly than the Seythic an . E. Asian 

 languages. 



The Chinese 2nd pronoun like the 1st is connected with Seythic 

 through the liquid element of the N, E. Asian and N. American. 

 Samoiede pyd-yr, pnd-ar Ac, Eak. il-wit, (pi el-pech**'), Kodiak 1- 

 s-pyt, NamoDo yei-pyk, the more Seythic N. American, as the 

 Sioux ne, ni, do, di &c ; the Kams-chatkan roots tu, tche, se, s, r. 

 Comp. tho Japanese ana-*a musi'ta ; Scjiihic ne (Oat.), se, si, sa, 

 te, ti, ta, tOTt, d, g, chi Ac ; Indo-Europ. tu thu, su, si, a &c ; 

 rau-li, nrh, Chuaeae ne, ni, nci, nae, ngi, lu, du^ ju, jo, nyu. In all 

 the systems the connection between the 2d and 3d pronoun is 

 more clearly maintained. In Seythic and Indo-European it is 

 leaa obscured than in the modem Chinese being indeed as distinct 

 as in Bhotian. 



In the varioua forma of the 3d pron. the relatives, interrogatives • 



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