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STHNObOHT or TUE IKDO PACIFIC ISLAh'OS, 



The nimftlaic plossary hm Pp^pnd to the southward over all TTTtraindiai 

 tnuch of Indiu, and most of Asoi-p^tia, Whetbt r tlift rgro-t'aucfiaion and 

 other c-ognale glosBariets sprpad frora the Ilinialaic pro-vince, <«r the Hima* 

 laic were derived, wit-h them, from some other primitive seivt, in a question 

 thjit dfjps not admit «f po ready nn impwer. Hut from the pronouns and 

 partiuk'i!, it in prubiiblii; that the ultimsitf Kusin of the llimalait: jj-k^Ewary wa» 

 aChiuf'^if' dialect, and that the ^Teat masf* of the suk^tantive voi aljulary 

 wfts inti'odiuwd from the primary' Hcytliic prttvince. The Driiviro-AbS- 

 tralian g'lo?,'^Hry apfwars to bave heen'alKO formed at a period lonir pre- 

 redinp- the spread of the Hiinulaic jrhjeiiar^' in its prtn=ient form to the 

 WJUthward of the mountains, by the engraftnient of a Scy thio foria. and 

 glossary on a Himolaic bani^. 



Names of ATTBiBtTTEn. 



Mr. Brown's Tocabulariea cout-sdn {iubstaTitives or.lj, so that (3ie Mani- 

 tmri dialpcts" are not included in thi;* cnnifmrir'on. The oniisnion ia unfor* 

 tunate, jw, next tu the di-tinilives and pronouns, attributive words (ij[uali- 

 tivp.H and fljwrtivts) are flu' most stable. 



The relations tih<nvn by tlie di.sTribution of the names for tlie colours 

 and their various Kijplitations^ are, for the moj^t part, archaic. In Tibet 

 Tiri^^js fonn.s • nd fjpjilinitions :!ppejir to have ari;ien in an e rly nerioddf 

 the liwtory of tbe formation. Jlofh the prinnn*)' full fonnw mm the se- 

 cond-iry contracted omt*j are found in tJie Ganjjeto-Lltraiiidian vocabula- 

 ries. 



¥mr example, the mo?t^ important of the Tibetan roote for hlnek is the 

 litpiid. in the psi,~tjijg* Tik-fan vocidndaries it hati seven! formft and 

 Ulioifions. The full arch iii form vas [nobably nnsr, ni'Ji, bijjr, kk, r^g^ 

 rak &c. It retains such o ftnm m the woitls tor bliirk and crow in Bho- 

 tian ajul (lyaruii^', awl in se\eral of the Inivvady .uid tiau|^retii: vix^bula- 

 riea, It titker tlie dent 1 or ^"^nttural prefix in l Jyanin{i; aiiasevenil of th« 

 eoutheni dialect.-*, A bam witb the bibhd ]nefix l-* dsvo verj' arthaic. 16 

 in found ill tlie word tt*r the '^rotp in liliotiun und G\ arung', and contrrc- 

 tioji.i of it arf eurreitt jii lihoti;in woul:* f(tr bli f !iJid rtd, in Cfyaruiifr and 

 . iou'hern word.-* for m'tffif, and in .\ wordt* lor ilie tTt»n\ These uppii- 

 cations. .«<]i(»w tb;(t tlit; rt»nt mvisf liavt Itren nt one time current with ths 

 lobisd prebx in Tibet, in its primaiT Jtieaninpr, bht'f/, titirk. The Bhotian 

 mo-n, wo-n f/h/r^ Slurnsi nu>-a nit/iU, (ivaruiip* mo-r tii/fht^ even render il 

 prolttible that the f->nii WK*-nst^, wo-ralk hod «w<pnred the tronti-aeted 

 fiirin mo-n, mo-r, before it ce to be u^ed with :t(* pri isiry meaning", it is 

 jiot prL'bubl^j that the f^aine dialectt would liave both the fuU and contracted 

 formtj current as bhtch. TJie fumation and nreservsjtion of distinct vorietiea 

 of tJieii Tue root, and the rejitiiction of endi to a spe*jj!i;; ut»e, are mainly 

 effoctji* of the exififj-ni e of dialectj*, Th*' applinition of other varieties t > red 

 UiUftt be explained in the same way. The Dhotian ma-r, fiyarung- ve-r, 

 were probahly deriv^'d fr' an a diJile<'t in whit n the laluul pref. waa vui~ •md 

 not tmt'. Tho form of tbe roof in th*- more ro:'.nion word for rrd^ ni, 

 bIiowh that jl orifrinated in a dialect in wbivh nak, bhieh, hJid tflken the 

 ■lender form, nvMk or nvik. Tliis ftttenualion the ;ucjiaic fo ni.^i distin- 



fuisUe.-f tbe later from tltu older Ti' etvn ]il;otiokt^'3% It is u i^ifan and 

 forpa tnrit, llie contracted form ui, witli its applii-irion tj red, mmt there* 

 fore be tompanitiveh' mod^m. Jud must liave Wen known by otter 

 temi^ or foiuis in tfie carlitr Q|rf-a of the torai; tiun. Uoqn «nd Tlyj* 

 fhu having; tlie elendtjr I'oim of wk, witli ita yriin^ mc-jjiing ^fccA, Uio 



