BTHNOlOGr OP THB INDO^PACIFIC ISLANDS* 



preposed definitives, be&ides possessing many common roots. It 

 is probable that tbe Mon-Anam was at a comparatively early 

 period puslied to the Boulhward, although not before it had receiv- 

 ed a ^nsidcrable portion of Scythio vocables. The Tibetan 

 miscellaneous vocabulary, like the prononniB, and the general 

 ideologic character of the formation, show that it la Chino-Scythic. 



An examinattoa of the vocabularies separately gives the fol- 

 lowing results. 



In the Bhotian list we £nd ahoot 14 Tocables with Chinese 

 affinities ; 6 with Turkish ; 3 with TungUBian ; 20 with more 

 remote Scythic and K-'E. Asian languagea which may be termed 

 Ugro-Kurilian ; and 18 which I claes as peculiar, simply because 

 I have not ascertained any foreign affinities^ but many of which 

 will probably prove to be Ugro-Kurilian, 



The Horpa vocabulary diffei-s little from the Bhotian, at least 

 36 of the 58 words are Ehotian, and 4 of the others are also 

 Bbotian in root; 4 are Chinese (besides 6 which are Bholian 

 also, making 10) ; and 18 are neither Bhotian nor Chinese, 

 although 4 of them have Bhotian affinities. Several of the 

 others arc Scythic. The Bbotian vocables have, in general, the 

 same form as in Bhotian, but they are solder. Thus rog antf 

 phag kofjfi metog flower, lag kand^ discard the fina' g« In some 

 cases the Horpa form is broader, e. ^. rum Jiom, mab jire. Most 

 of the Hor|ia forms are found in the Si-fan or Ullraindo-Gangelic 

 vocabularies. 5-gre star, h a slender form found in Burman 

 kre, the Bhotian and Manyak being «-kar-7?ia, kraj^. Phri 

 maltB is a similar slender form of the Bhotian *-brul, Manyak 

 bru, Takpa mrui, It is also Thochu bri-^i and Gyar. Ma-bri, 

 Where the Horpa form differs from the Bhotian and has special 

 Si-fan or southern affinities, these are indicated in the subjoined 

 list. • 



Thochu bas 24 or 26 words in common with Bhotian, and 3 

 with Chinese in addition to 5 Bhoto-Chinese. Of the 35 remain- 

 ing vocables at least 13 (4, 19, 21,23, 25, a and h, 2% 27, 30, * 

 37, 38, 40, 40) are Scythic- They are nearly all archaic, that is 

 they are not derivatives from the adjacent Mongolian or Turkish, 

 but belong to the primary Scytbi co-Tibetan stock. Some preserve 



