20 ETn.VOLflGT OF THE JN'DO. P,VClF!fT IStANOS. 



sibilant defiiiirjve and unit prefixed, it occurs with the fiarrirt blender rowct 

 in the Semitic iv-in-, shr-ne. <kfi. (thcirun-i fffmimlly chiiiuiihg- to i{, li, 

 le, 1, ri in iyi-iean limcruu^-*'!* ), in flif Cnncti-iiiui .vAi-ri, o-ii, .SiiiiiDiedi 

 si-ri, ^i'de, rhifierie il, nj kc. Tl»tf*luiri»in i<mtii:i tavoar the j a litre nee that 

 tlie Africnn liijijul eleiijtint k tht? Kim** a.-* th«. ,St*vlhi>.SL*mitic nud Can- 

 CQsian. They even teiicl to show tliur the terra waa received from si Can- 

 cfiisiiiii lnii.r«iii;e- But it u more furubuMn tijat in oiiiruml Asiatic sya- 

 t^]Tif us in thii Zimlnan, tbf labitd deh'iiittve iirui mdl wu.s jtrf^<*rved as tiie 

 iiiiriitl in .-iunv vnrieti(?H tsf -2 wttU ixs the ytHiljuit, gnitMiml If flu, 

 the Alncan blli vScc, like the Dnivinv Aiistraiinii har, b^, btdu &e., 

 i.^ a rejimant of a form oiicu jimnlKut in A.^ia. The Cauerisian 

 wUfm ( Abkho'^inn ), nn En^kurinii In, art' siimliir irmnont.s, tin; fomier 

 buviug- the labial [lostlix nAn the Mah»g-n>iytiTnK In many Siytliic 

 ienB^ nud in tlie Italo Kuropeiyi lulanl *'J<Mneiit kep|j.-4 it^j^round 

 with more or less ]»rtjmiiu»iie« and tenacity. Lliit in the^e tenna 

 the labial hn» auotlivr definitive mrit (dental, g-ntturnl |in»Jixf'd 

 {^U\. Jir|niiie:^e jjmsen-e-^ the lultial in 2 in 1, '-i and 4 ( fi-to 1, 

 iu-Ui -J, mi -1, mil 4). The ckweit foms to the Zitnhiun are jircrtin-ved 

 in the ^^eythic and X. E. As^ian 1, 5, UJ Sec. hiv, jiir kc. 1 ( Turkj:*h ), mill 

 0, 10, Koriak, rnvr 10 Tnn'rU'iian. 'J'hi^ ouly .N. I'l4«"rm that pre- 

 gfWe^ this fnnu in 2^ and thus iMirre.Hjifmdrt wirh *tli« Djuvinv-AoHrmHan • 

 ami ZimbijiD, ir^the -Namailot Esquimaux )mal, thrhroad vuwei l>t'.i:i<r Dra- 

 viro'Anstralian rtnri iS'ilo-Mjjeriim bnt not Zimbiaii. «JlJ^'"<^t! it muy 

 hp iiiffrriitd that it,'* tli^'Jeroiiiatiou ojj q tr-nn fur '2 hils very archaic. The 

 Koniro-A»froIi>n so-H, ko-U', ya-ri cloftvly m^end-k' tha ^^etniiie furm, and 

 Mill niqje eloatdy thfi < > oi-iiiaii o-ri, hhi ri, vf-rii, while all have Hoythie 

 allini'ie^. They ^trmrjih-jsinjtport the opuiiun that the litjnid l-* the ejj^en- 

 tinl elcuientio the teno, aiul that the cuiitracted IbimH ni, li, ri, di, tj, si 

 &e. are a letnrji to the nIlhna^^' nwit. The /iiuhiaii nod other t^imilar 

 African tfiiu^ ap|<ear to he relitti'il to the current Soinitir nut directly, hut 

 tlu'ou^h iheir nuituiil derivafkm tVot/i lUi iin haii; tSi>mitic or Semito-Li- 

 byaii inolher'syM^'m. .mialojrows to the Cinu:a;!ian nnd ricythh:. 



The hrood and widely ispread xvilo-Niiremii form, Vial, bar, ha, or 

 &c. i.> men^rlv « vuriiUiun ut the blender bin Sec, and it in j)robable, fitim 

 the luuili imd Tembn tfmis, thut the full form was lju-ri, the liquid ha,V' 

 iuix thi'^h'iidi'V Aniatie vowel ais in Zimbinn tmd the vowel of the labial cor- 

 responding with that of the KoKJfro-Mpoopve Ibnii of Zimbian, va-li, ba- 

 lu, lint uhi ther the broiul furm of uw labia! was a diniinct Asiatic; im- 

 Jtonmktn ai»d directly connected with thf Jtrchiiic .Xanuillu ma-1, Draviro- 

 Australiun Im-ri, Un-r, or wan ineiflv an Afrittim «)odificaftotu i:» not clear. 

 In Asia the broad form a|t]icnoi to l>e the more archaic, the vowel in the 

 slender fornifl havinj; osMiniiataJ to tlutt of the eonjninod detiiutive in si, 

 li, ri, (i, ki Sec, it probable tiuit in Alricft xihn the furtn hi &c. \\m 

 BHi'undary and ba priniHiy"; in wjiich mae the ea^item ba-ni, va-li would Iw 

 the (iiiLrintil Zindfiau iorin ; hut the CauciLso-^'oskaridn bi futrg-eate that hi 

 may aiao huvB TM'Cjj impurtetl iVoin jVsia. In the iSwnitic temi? fur 2 the 

 muiw afyiniibtion of the voweln uf the two elemenl,-* iri found. In the Se- 

 jnitic 4 (he Imnul vowel uf I»ar, mar it* pJH'.^'rved in the contracted fuim 

 ar, while the feiii. form of the laiiiid 1 wall \s identicid with what appeara 

 to have been the older Aliican thna. 



Ob:, on tfrn Didfrihttion (tf tfw terms. 

 Jjt. llie btoad famiii ba^nj ) m^j-Iu^ durmUf m-af sa-^, su-Bi, 



