ETHNOLOGY OF TIXR IN IJO-PAOlFrC ISLANDS^ 



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immhora (hat tlie Mon flyislein usmI both tho bEimry and quinanf 

 methods oT expre^iiin^ l|^se riiiijibers, a umgn by no iiicaiis siugulaj", "l 

 have little hcsifutiiin in referring both the Vinclyan and Kambujau terma 

 to lUt* mnr(lG Moii-Anam syateiii. 



Ahliongh 1 uan iiiid nothing to waniglt the opmion tbfit th*^* Vindyon 

 and Kaiiibajan lanfjui^ges mi^ht have obtained separate tprins iVoni I'-tist 

 Africa, l'i>r I bav« no <i iui>t timt all their Africaii tt rinn were received 

 tbroutrh tho Mnn, it slioalrl he reinarkf*'! ilmt !Hmloa:ouf**vporflsi aro cur- 

 rent in some Africnii vo(;nbularif s. Tho triir espl nfition, , I eoncf ive, 

 is, tbat the A>rieaii tenna in f[ucMiim arc formad from tin; sarao biimry 

 dfliiuitivo root.*, n»a, ba &u ; rn, hi, un &«. A j?uuhili dialect has inamit, 

 and tot bo westward forsns ghiiiini- to ttio Ituliun and rkraindiaa occuFj 

 — uiun, liallom ; rauj Kra^ uufli, Akin ; aum Amina, 



Six, 



Tho Vindyan tr'rms, like ^tymo of iho IThraindJan, npppar to be Tibetan. 

 J«(i, — tur-w, turu-ya, lurui KoL - turm, turnw« Gond, Tlie G«nid bus an 

 exi:eittiaiiul terni jwt-ron;,' {j^jx ifl a prebx in 5 nlso, s-aij-an ; i/fiij Toda) 

 which appears to bo siinpK^ j u of the Koi dinlects nasalised But it liiay 

 Lc durecily deny o<i from the N(i»£a form so-ru. In the GawiJ t'ovm the 

 wy becomea lUfr, — /-rt-ruo Mon ; tho Uong^^jii, Knsta, Barnia, t?ing- 

 phu, Cbong ami. Ka ternn arc nil similar aniifiue niodiifioations of the 

 Tibetan, i'lte Ka/rno is a dtrivntiveor the Mon. The Chong /w-dorr» 

 23 a nttsaliseii form simihir to the ihniA *rt-rong. In Bodo, JDhimal^ 

 Bongju and Naga, Jbrms in d and r nUo occur. 



The iinomalous terms are ihu-fiilj, In-itil, ta-fad Xieohar; shank Kycag; 

 aau' (abrupt aecent for k) Anaui. Tho Dsieobar lerni may be composed 

 ofthaS (Iroin ilminn) and fnlt lurl, whicli sliould represent I. A aimdar 

 terra for 1 does not exist iu ttio Indiiin, (Jltra(n<littn or Asoiie^^iiin pro- 

 vince, save m the Egypto- A U ican wot ii^ uotu, motu &c. bnt in the latter it 

 is used for 10 (i, o. ofie tale), h is pnibablo tbereforo that ful i.-! a Mon- 

 Anum binary tGrni tormed fkxinnaLly from pun, fon, 4. Tha may either 

 be from the previous term on the repeutivo prlneiplo, or it may be tho 

 iVlon-Aiiam prelim. Shank, sau' has a deroptive appearance of affinity 

 witb a wide spread African, Iranian, Caiisasian and N. Asian tonn, tbo 

 final of which is prenerally /. Afrir an, shitu, t^ita, aeda Semitic shat, 

 bat ; Vgr, cbat^ hat; Iranian shasb, sochs, glx. But it merely one of 

 the numerous variations which til-' Tibetan root nndiirgoea. The origi- 

 nal may have been the 31 bihiut tliauk or thuk. The Kakhoing khrauk 

 preserves 111,0 broad vovveJ. 



he mil, . 



Mon, ^-rt-bok; Ka, pah ; Anam, bei. Tbis term is a flexion of 2 (tha 

 word for *> being omitted, a>* it is in most ot the other fonwation-*), I 

 have alrea lv mentioned that most of the Ultraiiidffin and llinnuityatu 

 languages adhere to the Mon-Anarn tpnnary prim iple iti forming tho 

 term ior 7, and tliat a large Jiambor o! tUeju imlicytethe conimencenieut 

 of the hijjber series of nunibera, or those above o, liy ibe jmsfi- {gejiornl- 

 ly ta, ika). i.epcba preserves ka in all the tei ins from (J to 10; and 

 Kiranti, which, iu its word lbr'2 (/m-sat), retains mi aunieut root which 

 reapp"ftr> in olber hxngnages in terms lor 4 mid M (i-aal Nainsai ir Naifa"), 

 has another an;haif: term iu ffhag-j/rt, 7, wbirli ib evidently the Mon hok. 

 The Nieohar f^nt might njn>ear to be Ilin li, but as the Naneowry dialect 

 h9M /la-kiftt; vihkh rugciublesj tho Lau form Qt' tli& Cliiactie term (cMat)^ 



