ITHNOLOOT OF THS INDO FACITTO fSLANDS. 



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§prend khratiJ', Artt*, karau^ trau Sec fa evident} an arehaic East Tihpfnn 

 form til'tlie fMjititae lu' or luk^ aliied lo tlie \VriJten Tit*etan drvk. Its 

 dirta^rQii REUOiig^l kingua^ps of the Muii-AiiMn JanuHtiou i» yrvhnhly 

 attrJIiutable to tlie numeral aystem oJ iht* iMtter having hn^u fnin-Jy 

 qiiiiiHi or without any :iubstuiitive term abovf; that fur 6. It in louud 

 in K<jl «nr] Gorid also. The Ntiga t^roi might If Ibought to be uii 

 inimei^iate (ferivative fri»m tlie 'libntnn druk^ iJ to did iitx occur iVe- 

 quentlv «fl a prefix with otljer numerals atid words, and tlii^ uuraei nl 

 root, nfA, rMK, if^A*, occur bare and with (iisriirot jjrt'Hxes in otiipr Nagtt 

 dialect!*. The Garo krojt and Chpjiang kruA are obvioualy dfriviitives 

 from ih« Buniinn khruwA- and although th*; I^epcha taroi\ tmk^ reMenildeB 

 tlieTiheturi druk, \ have no thuilit— lo'-ktug to tiie cututulativ e?idenc^ of 

 the iuihtr nee ot Ultraindiun forma of niimprnlfi and oiher w*>rd3 on the 

 HimaJ^ VQD'tiiat it is a dgrivadve of the Uitniiiidian Ur&k (Naugaung 

 Na^a.)' 



T til! Karon ami Kuki ku, Dhimal tu, Bodo do^ tOf Naira «o-r«. Bong- 

 ju rAu-knr a|j|jeiir to bn r.onintclcd lorms, which in riianjxlo aud Abor* 

 Wiri take a nnsal fiaal Mmi</, /ceriff, Tht' Abor a-%e and Dophla a- 

 |-|de jtressent it in a very ourt foriii, and tho latter uurioualy preserve* 

 tbe Karen postfix pie. 



Seven. 



C\l ehhi, ehltitf ch'het, tketf sit y Lan cfietf cftiat, tsetf Singph. 



Th[> ailtcd IJItraindian and Himnlayan t'rms are remarkable. Thfl 

 Mon-Anam or earlier UJti aindian system was quinary, and a like^yatem 

 is atill seen in itie Uiirum-BimRlayun terms lor 7, which are nimply 

 the terra lor 2 Hometiniea ^Ifghtly modified. It wsia doul'tle-'s tormed 

 on thi; model of an ancient quinary term, 5—2, the term Ibro having' 

 been lost I ii© ctrcumstance of the joot lor 6 not biing found accom- 

 pauying' that lor 2 in any of the lattguagea, is a strong proof that tlio 

 prevalent Burma- Hinnduyun iiunieralt* were derived iroiii one hmguaffa 

 whii'h had dropped the term ior o before it beeame diffusive, Tho 

 Tibi tan term ii hdun, dun. It has made hardly any progress un thii 

 lide ofthe Himalayiia, the onlj axamuU n I find heirJg the Lhojm f/«H, 

 Ser[>a d'^un an r| Cliangl-j a uiodihcation of the Lhoj^a f/u//i. 'I lia 



Tiljetau tenn i.i not Chinese, but it i,i Tungustan nar/an, Mong doiEon,^ 

 Korea ii^n, and it enleraiuto the Kamehalkun nyiti?Rok ^ic. 



Thfribllowtnffarenonie oftlip Burma-Hfiimliitv an terms, Bu rm* kh wan 

 nach nr nnk, khi\nhit, kuni, Abor, kunW-ko Mirt knniV/e, Nag. tanet, 

 nitht am/A, \fiffit &ic. Singph. sini7» fiaro »yninirj. unit, Bodo chinf, sni, 

 Phim n/d'. Kar nut, nwi, im, ehnm, riAe, nosUi, Kuki §. eri [Garo 

 •ni], Bontrj. Rre-kar^ Kasia himan (hini ia I in Mikir) The Aljor- 

 tiiri ku-nit'kOf k\s~nid-e, ia dirertly connected with the Bur man 

 khuii-n/iif.t 'I'he Dojdila ka-w;^ iu the same word with the final i of 

 .2 converted >nto a guttural, as m the ancient Burnian ntzA, rmcA 

 I he Kiranti May-ya alone preserves the proper tern« of the M on- A nam 

 lyittem. t'omp. Mon ka-6tfA (from bo, 2). The prefix Aa ia tbuud in 

 tepcba Irgtu 7 to 10, but the term for 7, kyak, is peculiar, 



• r^^okpo tolo]. 



t LGy ai-iing kudli-n*irj T«kpa nU}. 



