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of the III do-A list rail an and Africau glossaries proI>ably separated 

 from tlie Mid-Asiatic liiigui^tio province before the dental began 

 to predominate ns a definitive and unit. It may be remarked that 

 languages and formations that have lost llie labial as a 3 J pronoun 

 preseiTe it as a demonstrative, and even when it i-" no longer current 

 as a demonstrative, it sometimeB lingers as an interrogative, rela^ 

 tive Sic, 



The existing Cliineao has doubtla.<^s siiiU'in-od great cTiang;es 

 during the period in which the various harmouio formations have 

 been developed ami dispersed, and these ^Imnges must have been 

 chiefly glossarial. It is consist eut with the Iii-^toi y of all forma- 

 tions that primary or archaic vocables and forms should sometimes 

 be found best preserved in those languages and families tliat ivero 

 earliest removed from the primitive ethnic location. In the con- 

 tinued mutual linguistic influence of the East Asiatic tribes, 

 Chinese and Soy tbic, changes have probably taken place in the glos- 

 saries of all the Jess SKchnled nations, from which the Dravirian, 

 Asonesinn, African and American remain free. 



Sec. 5, TUB iirSOlSLLANEOTIS QLOSSARIAL APPINITIBa OP THE TIBI-TIM 

 DIALECTS AMOltOST TilEMSBLVUa AifD WITH CUINHSti AND SCYrilTO, 



A glance at Mr Hodgson's tables shows that the Tibetan 

 vocabularies ere all intimately connected. Comparing the west- 

 ern or Bhotian with the eastern or Si-fan we find that in the list 

 of GO or rather 58 mv&ceUaneous vocables,* Bhotian has about 

 24 in common with Thochu, 33 with Gyarttngj and 26 with 

 Man} ak. The agreement is thns from 30 to 60 per cent. The 

 adjacent Horpa has 36 of the 58 words Bhotian. 



Of 09 Bhotian vocables only 7 are not found in any of the 

 other Tibetan vocabularies (8, 24, 30, 41, 4-5, 46, 50). Of the 

 remainder, 7 are found in all the other vocabularies (2, 7, 20, 26, 

 42, 48, 51) J 3 in Horpa, Thochu and Gyariing (15, 27, 56) ; 

 1 in Horpa, Thochu and Manyak (3) j 2 in Horpa and Thochu 

 (1, 25) J 7 in Horpa, Gyarung and Manyak (6, 14, 19, 29, 37, 

 38, 54); 6 in Horpa and Gyarung (12, 17, 21, 36, 40, GO); 5 

 in Horpa and Manyak, (22, 28, 32, 33^ 52) ; 5 in Horpa (16, 

 23, 39, 44, 55) j 2 in Thochu, Gyarung and Manyak (31, 47) ; 



* For the words correspond ing with the numbers eoe VocabuTory ante, p. 183, 

 In aome of tlie Tibetan lists two and even more wonlu ore deiicwiit. 



