S^THKOI^OGT OF THE IN 00 PACIFIC iSLANDSi 



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W, TibetBn g^d ko, Tlie Karen Aiyo, i/ta, is allied to it. 



JSine. 



Ch. H«, ; TiK (l/7«, ffufiy r/u, Him, ffti ; Ultrnindinn Jl«, tff, 

 A7(r> (\viih firrfiu'S in ^niiip (lt^ll^ ^•I^>, ;;iny:plm. ts.r'*«, Iliuiiii. Ah> 

 Ctiati|,'li> tuJt« (NagH), UuiUi cbAWj Uur.jfw, ifhAw Milcliuiiajig s^yij Luu 

 Jtftu', Karen A«i (Chinese).* 



TV;?. 



Ch. sftr'', aAip, cA^/?, frtp ; Tib. bchu^chuh, chu ; Htm. cAuA, e/«it (Tiberk) ; 

 Ulrmindiau,— etti, eft^, si^ /«, *e liiinnan, Karen. Nflgii &c , H^ro 

 cjii. Bod, Tlj(* UUrainiiiiin U vlo^fr tu Hie f'hiin'sp Ibjiii .tu tfio 

 Tihcfun I'orni, find it hm brcii cfijne<J we>t\van] into the Mimflliiyan 

 dinlecta, cM-iitai, .ta nbo, bnnc", .w. The term is i-vrdenrly tlm Cblno- 

 Tibetnti root tor I, cUif ckik, chi kv. a mude ot naniii*g^ SO ( I tiiJe) 

 found in intmy otliPr Iduguages, Tlmt ibe Ultmindian nud llimaliiyno 

 forins hrtve bf'pn d("i iv*'d Ji<un Chinese, or Irnm tm ettsteni Tii»f'tiui vn- 

 cabulury, is tiirther shewn by ibe Mikir krji, Kinmii kip^ vvbi* h ia the 

 CliiTiff^p cJii'p. The BurmBa /f-cbe, Kaklioing i(t-se, piefi* the term tor 

 1 witbnut itsgutturnllinHlt 



In the Chijtf'se sy't'^m the inimb<>r9 bf?t\vei»n iO and 20 arp fornted Ity 

 pliicing thi* lower iiumbfrs alter ibe wnu'd lot* tO, wliile Hie iiirt»ndht« 

 tonus nr tern are joTnicd by ptHctng thr^ lower iiuinbt're bHorf' thf? wi>r<l 

 lor li', whiiib jjreuiscdy accords in jiriiicijde with iht? Hindu, Arnbie 

 ami Kuroijfjan notation, til though Jiot -with iIjc nonienciature in tlie 

 seru'fl between Jl) and 20 (e, g. 13 forre.^pond^ with fho Cbim-^e tinni- 

 itig, hat not witlj ours which placea the digit before thu lftn» thir-ken ; 

 ituf ihit-ty, ihiriy-ons Sec. corrMpfind witli flie notn(ian, 30,31). Tlia 

 foilowiiii^ exurnjfiesi will show ibt* Cf>h8i>ten(:y ot tlt(? CliiopSH notntirm 

 with the cnllonmion of the words, chap 10, chap U llf c/tapji 12, chap 

 see l;j ; ji chup ao (2,10), sa chap 30 (3,10) X 



* [Gyarung kunfpWj Takptt du^if^ (Tib), Wnnyak j^abi, ilorpaifj, 

 Xhoctm rgnre.] 



t [GyAmng d% Manyak che^Afhi^ Tnkpft pcAi']- 

 { Note on ike Chinese and Indo-Arahic numeral SJ^mhoh. 

 3Vfl//w.* ot numbers niuat bavo preceded ^M/m&t)/,)*, andtbe Intlian symbota 

 must have heen invemer! by a nation which iollowed thu tluii^se 

 eyateav ot naming', tbat h suuh a term as thir-te^n^ irayo-dush/mf 

 te-rah cuuld not have been uscfl hy it. The Draviriiui and iVIon-Aiumi 

 gyst^uin iifjffLrt wiib the Cbiuese ni itJaciiig the deoinial in its nutural 

 plHRp, r, ^ 11, putinunu (10,1; iti 'lamii Tg-f/ffHwd (10,l)in Kol j imi 

 tnnf (^<^^) in Blon ; kad xvel in Kasia. That tbi^ »y!>teni is 



tlip natural one is proved by its prr*valei)f:« in other lauguagra, Aoie- 

 riesin, AsiaHc (Sejrthie, Geor^an, Eiiskjirian &tj.), ftnd Atricaii, Tho 

 Indrt-Europr^nn and Semitic collocation is exceptional. 



The perte'-iiofj of t he dtpcintai notation must have bpen a slow prores*, 

 fiud may have betMi the work ol the civilised Dravirinfja or other pre- 

 jVrian n'a^oris of India. But the Chmeaa bad advanced far in this, 

 dircetion, a&d tlicre are son e grounds for attributing the nidimeiity not 

 oily ot the syftcni, hut of the symbols also, to them. 1 he Cliinese sym- 

 hoJa tor the ' three lowest mimbers are reapecUvely 1, S EUiil a stiokei, 



