ITIIN'OLOar OF THE IN DO-PA CI TIC ]SLANI»9. 



foreign system in which sa was the root and m a postiix< If it h& 

 a dietinct definitive it is probably the Jabial posaefiaive and quali- 

 tive postfix, still preserved in some Scythic languages, a§ in Bho- 

 lian and whicli was ihe distinctive pOBtfix of one of the moBi 

 anAiaic Mid and North Asian immoral systems. Remnants of the 

 numerals of tbia system are found in sereral branches of Scythic 

 and in the allied Caucasian systems. One of the Ytiniseiaii 

 dialects (Imbask) retains it tbroitghont in the forma <^m, -am, -m, 

 'be. In the Scythic remnants it haa generally a slender form (as 

 m the Imbaski -em, -be), -met -im. The pure sibilant, dental 

 occur as 3 in Korean sai (in 00 sbi as in Thocbu) Kamschatkan 

 tzo,rcho, Yeniseian to, tong- The Scythic terras have generally 

 the double form of the unit as in the Scytbtc, Chinese and Tibetan 

 1 g. chudem, kujiw, korom. In 7 the unit root occurs in tbe 

 forms nmm^ &lm. In Koriak which has a nasal prcBx and a gut- 

 tural postO^ the sibilant undergoes the common change to r and 

 y> — ntf-sho-hatVf nga^so-^, fie-ro-haf ni-yo-cA, §i-u-cfi, Amo has 

 also r hat wiih the archaic labial postfix va-p?t, r&-phf re*zh* Cau- 

 casian preserves a form still closer to the Chiiiese tban the double 

 ones of Ugrian. It has samt, semi, sum. The postfix has hei'C 

 also the Scythic slender form, and one of the Tibetan dialects 

 Manyak, n bieh preserves the labial postfix throughout like Im- 

 baski, has the same voweI,-&t. This is the more remarkable from 

 Bhotian having the form -j?o, -bo, as its qualitive posttfix. Chinese 

 again has hu, dif it &c poatposed^ Manyak itself has i, e pos8» as 

 in Barman and Bhotian (hom ki, kyi &c) and de-y da- Ac quali- 

 tive. It seems clear therefore that the numeral postfix -6* belongs 

 to an archaic Scythic connection. Samoiede has a form similar to 

 the Chineae in 5, sam, Bvtm, sobo, s&ba &c. 



4. Cmif. si, se, sz, ti (Gyami si) ; Tib. 6zhi, ihyi, sshi, in 

 40 hi, in 8 bt Bhot. ; Itadi, in 40 pli, in 8 or, Gyar. ; gzh^re, in 

 40 ghy'if in 8 AArar<?, Thocbu ; reM', in 40 zyi, in 8 zi, Manyak ; 

 Ida, in 40 le, in 8 rhi-ee, Horpa ; the variations are thus si, zi, 

 zyi, zhl, zhyi ; se ; sz ; hi, hyi / ti, di ; rhi, li, le, re ; zha, ra, 

 hia, or, r. Tbis is the «ame sibilant definitive, (variable to the 

 dental, liquid and aspii-ate) that is found in lower numbers. In the 

 basis of most homogenous systems 4 is merely a variation of 2 or 

 of the original full compound 2, 2. If »i be 2 dual, as is proha- 



