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«T« Sifae, *a-ii Gyininf, Utoyik, (rt Horpi, »-n Thocbo). Th« 



pre?at«iti Sifan ind Uluamdifiti vowfl, ii ml] be rfmatkcd, i« unt found 

 IQ Gy«ronK, vbicb h«i ihf> current Criineie tod Hhmiin t. Wiih tbe 

 Sifin-NiKa fornii ire to he cta^ied ihe Karri nnrJ Kuror Afl. Khy-nff Afl-I 

 (nf n'lar, pa-hai)i Shinilo me-'tt Bonpju ka-iar, KM ktwAa. Nfrobir 

 kit'Aoi, Hurman ti, tiL-ch, m lil. Karen la ph, TartKblu 11 Thf Karen 

 And Hurnoan ratalo ih« Marvyak totm ooahered. The fittnoral Yinua va< 

 riiiif^n of thia \a found in Chanulo khung, DM^bla a-kiitn, Ah'^t n-ko 

 (rlouhtfuil, 6 baa a-kenf ko). Tayine Mittbtoi «-khir0. Tb- Mii^inBlChmo- 

 Tibetan 6na1 la ftres'^rv^d in th« Naua ^'kK#t nmlfM h br a vurjpiy of th« 

 Gyarunj; k»-li (kfu-t) To this varieiy ihe Klmnti ei-'ai in al-r^ refrrsble, 

 Drjleii it be Arian The N«e» fca-t i», in like mannpr, (he origliml ib^ 

 L«pcba and Alagar ka-f, Sunwor ka, wbi<>b appears to b« Ibe prtfix of 

 jta«t and not a ncrivative from tbe Yuma radical ka. 



The Blender Bur man forma lit, le', may be r>*ii\'e varieties of tbe broad 

 Sifan form*, but it it more probable fmrn tbe Gyarurj; t>, Takpa ihi, that 

 iimiiir varieiitR of the Chineae fliif, it, cb** itc. were at crje lime rurrent 

 in Sifan ali^o Tbe Naga cha, in an a foriri retaining tbe Chine«» ror»4unant. 

 Tbe Oaraand Deoria Chutia Jtha ia a varialior) of cha. Haga baa tleo ihft 

 (tjon-ibe), rorrt!?.ponding with the Burman (e* and Cbinene cbe* or I'hek, 

 The Bodo «Ue (man-che. in which tb* preT man i« the t«ame as ihe Nag« 

 van), Dhimel e (e-Zong'. in 10 In-long), i* ibe aime Tarieiy. It in a] no 

 found in ibe Miri a-re-ro. The Ltmbu tbit i* reTerable to ihe Bortnart lit, 

 • nd the Takpa tbi ifi a contraction of a similar form Tbe Sin^bo aj-flia^ 

 and Chepanp y»-sh<f appear to be Sif>tn (a-ri l"hocbu, r» Uorpa. 



2. Tbe furmst of bboiian. jnyii, nyi, «o clowely retremble t)ie Gyirckng 

 ita-neA. Ai-ni«, that the affiniiiea of tbe Himalayan varieiiea are some- 

 what unceDain Tbe Si^rpa artd Lhopa nyi ami Cbajigb nyik Jir« tli« 

 only nndoabted Bbotian forms. 



The 8if«n broad form ( rirocbo ngu-ri, Manyak -na-ftf) ia ronnd in Tilc- 

 «a na-i. ir* Kachari Bodo na-i. in Burman nba-i'A, nha-cA. ar^d ip Nftf i 

 a-na, fl-na-*. the Ullraindian forma with final /, .cA, A bt?ing referable to • 

 Sifan rarieiiea which posaewed a £u&l consonant lUc« Bhotiui and Gjb. 

 runp;< 



The common Ultraindian forma have «. e. Barman nhi-(. N«robar nenf, 

 Koki ni-Art, Naga od-nyi, a-nyi, ib, ff-oe, ThoneHiu ne. Kami ni, Abor 

 fl-ni, a-ni-ilo, Mikir At-ni. Mif^hmi ka-ning, kn-ying (fir>«l n^asin 1), 

 <Jaro5t-nin(r, fl-ningr, Boilo mon-ne, Uhimal ni*-/onj7 The variuiion oft 

 to a ii» also Hnrpa» npn, and Gya»unp. ka-nv-s. i"b« final i* preaerved 

 in tbe Napa 7. i-ngiW. ni-rA, la-nr;-( (Gyarung ka-n«~9U a-na-*A. Th« 

 Sinppbo n-jtAoiiji ii a variation of the Naga a-ni-feo. and iht? SibpHgor Miri 

 n^go'^i in a sirtjil^ar form with a superadded pusllix found m higber nuin« 

 t»era, a-pi>« 4, &o, 



Tba Lfpchi and Limha nye-f, nje-i-»h biT* th# Bbotian y anjrir^nt; 

 bat th« fo«»l-ia Sifan-Ultraindian. Tha Murnti mni, Sonwar nvfAI. 

 Mif^ar m cnay be Bbottan, bat Hifan-Uitraindian baa aimilar forret, and 

 the f{c<i«r*l >ffiaiti«i of tbe Nipal dialecti «r« S.-U. more than Bhatiao. 



3 Th» LiOiiba. Eiranii, Takpa and ChepaoK forma in mih tht 

 |4tirmi in n (nun), aynin, aom) appear to be Bbotian, hkr tbe Berpa and 

 Lhnpa. l^e Newar ariD« Gumnii and Magar aooR, Tayinjr Miabmi 

 fea-cbnnjj. Mo* Ang. «u {Hnrpa}. Bnrroan •on(i, Bf»n(r» DbriBa) lUiD, 

 iiiifpilo ma'tnw, JBafigja tiun-ior, KoJu tUBk'ka, Kb j tog ihoDi ftf^ 



