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and islands^ appeai-s to prove that they were slowlj diafit^miDa- 

 led alonj^ with the uiher Tibeto-Burman worJs of which a sprink* 

 iiijg is found in the purer Men- A nam vocabularies. In the Hima- 

 layas llie fragments of the older numeral sy stems have the same 

 cha meter as the Tibeto-UItraindian. They, are Tibeto-Cbineso in 

 some of the peculiar Ultratndlan forms, with traces of the more 

 ancient Mon-Anam terms. The inference from all the data istliat 

 (he Burmah-Himalayan tribes carried the Tibeto-Ultraiudian 

 numerals with them in their prdgresa up the Gangetic basin and 

 into that of the Indu!>^ and that the Chinese terms were conse- 

 quently used in norlhern India before the Arians introduced 

 theirs. 



Tire principal i-^mnants of a pre-Chine^e or non*Chinese system 

 in the Burmah-Hfmaiajan numerals are those contained in the 

 terms for 7 and 8. Some of the other terms are also not Chinese^ 

 either in a Chinese or Tibetan form* 



The Chino-Tibetan terms are, in a large number of the cis~Ht« 

 malayan ianguagcs, curiously blended with older ones. In some 

 ciises the ancient binary and quinary principles have been retain- 

 ed , while the trans-Himalayan terms have been partially adopted* 

 In othei*s both systems and both sets of terms are intermixed. 

 There are even languages in which the Bravirian, Mon-Anam and 

 TibetO'XJltraindian formations have each assisted with numeral 

 roots or modes of combining them. Lastly the Sanskrit and the 

 modern derivative systems of India have here and there contiibu- 

 ted a numeral. 



Several of the Ultraindian and Himalayan systems take post- 

 fixes^ c. g. chi, shi or sh Limb. ^ zho, Cliepang; Kiranti 

 (Vindyan -ia) j lon^^ Dhimal j he, Ahor Miri f koj Kuki ; ha or 

 kaVf Bongju ; bOfph Karen (2 diaiects). The N. Ultraindian hare 

 also prefixes as with other words, — fa, pka, pe,pi, vaj batpa; 

 a ; i Naga &c j a- Bophla ; ga, gi, Garo, ka Mikir (2), Lepcha 

 ka, kka (7, 8, 9, 10, &c). Khyeng has pa- as in Naga. It ap- 

 pears also in the Kuki and Bon^u 2, with the poslf,, jtJa-ni-Aa ; 

 pe-nn-f/ar^ and in some of the Himalayan terms, e. g. 4, Lcpcha 

 pha-Vi, Mag. &wli, Murm. felij Gur. ^jli, contracted in New. to joi ; 

 5, Lepcb. /jAa-gnom, Mag. ftanga, affording an unequivocal proof 

 of the western influence of the N. Ultraindian formation. In 



