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KXHKOItOQy OF TlfR t?JB0-t»A01f tC ML&NDS. 



runs through Bsvml ilialecla. irtdf easing a diffaaioiri of the term, bu 1 in Qlhcif 

 cnsi!3 ih>} i^nrnG lief, occurs wtch a epcchi forca in one dialect and wilhaul ti in 

 rt'iPTS. Uhoimn ha» nnk./P7 f^itck, ai-\ak cro'o i Thodhu tira^-wa crc/io. nyik 

 l/'a:^; Gyutunz hfi** A <-nak blaeA (corrnsponding with the Srrpa farm uftllioiiAtt 

 ki-tak)^ while (a. ci^sw ii prefix"?' in in the Rhot. crtnipfmn.d uf the ront and (ha 

 Ja'ttal pref, t.i6-roH ; Guning uses ihe labial form M^iih both meaninga — m long-ya. 

 Ill !he soitihern ijiaiecis tbe ront ocears with (he labial pref., arnl witii tho gui. 

 turai or dcr.ial, in its pritna.iy meaning hUck, while one uf iha Manip gri iltalccta 

 prefix 3 Uie eut. to the dBntaJin ira word for iberrotff. All thifl i^ a cii-srqiiencs 

 of the present dialects hnviu? b^cti form«d when t ha rooU were not concroitd 

 >f ith the prefixes, and when diffcrfinl def. might be used for the s^-nt purpa«;e. 



2. Slender forms of th4 root occur in Tiiofhu : ylk, Kuimin, nrt. Ko* 

 Hng ngpt, Bon^ju ni!^. GarO nek, Miirh, rpjj. btu'-k j liliot. sp, chfn, night. ^ 

 TaJ:i»A, Lrtnbu s**!! itctck,- -Naflu gr. ching f/fif, iiinit gTeen.^Yuma M*ft, istrii 

 jlilch. Bhiiij[rei/j Htirpa ngj, Gj*ar. ,Man., Buj m. iik Aunaroi ri, Yuma iingi 

 Laii fnm. len, t'!i»n|f r« A — Lau, An, nii, den» Toung-thu leog i/.eA, — Burm, 

 tiyiti night. The liquid root for has only hroa«l fwriiia wiih itut ini tin,- 

 Sngin TiUet. but slpnder ones occur iu Ihe names for Ihe mom. DeoiU 

 »tid KiiBia have slendpr form a for white, 



3. Tile special East TibPiHLtiison nee lion w-(h the southern l>,)>fEua!ite« ii 

 wHlehown by ihr word f r t^d \n Gyarune. MauvaU and Hurman, si; and 

 tbf. word fcir white in Horpa, Gvarune, Mijhu Miahmi, Sinjifihii and Hurmatii 

 M. M. preBfrving th" ioMbl> pref. of Oyarung, It also li'ustraifs the sj>e' 

 ciul Gyarur.^ and north IfMwaiiv element in burinan as die<linKniKhed frmil 

 the old< r ciak'Cte ofthe eame family, llic Yittua ioitm being TaUp^a (whicli 

 «gain apppars to be Bhotian). 



4. The Karen tliu, thun Huck ii ChinrRc ; t^ 1b. la bi»e ia probably from 

 tlie Cliinese fain, and some of the Napa and Nip«l tfrins appear to belong to ifie 

 Bame relationship ; wa, bwa v^hite (tal:fl po light) have Napa and Nipal iiff. 



5. Th*^ Iv!on-Ani»m family bate a dis'iiict *i-cliBic H rm of \\\*. liquid root 

 for hliek and nighi. It is retain eti in tbw Yuma dia ect>i and K^sia in a broad 

 form ; Lau and Anam have e formt. Sknrter f.irtns kip ilso applied to red 

 in the Lau fKm., and were probably coramunipatcd by it to those dialects of 

 the Tibfto-Iraw^dy famvlv that lirHt spread to the south, as these forma are 

 found in Totin^-thu and Kttmi. Th<* Lau wnrJ for ich ta — similar to the 

 Thochu— has been comiunnieated to Khyeng, So o and Garo; and )a Karea 

 and sfimp Nagaand Ntpftt diaicctR it is rofLiiipd in r ^ohfn*a form. 



I add a few more words of thi.=i class for tJin purpose of illwstratin'r the 

 cormection between the HimnJaic and Asoneaian langtia^es, but without 

 att«mptiu<f ttity exaft comfjuri.soii"j. They are roots of a cbiss that have 

 mtiiiy api)jicaiioiis, and several of the pubHshed vocabidaries do not coutaia 



Tinrrnv??. 



1, chhen-pfl Bh. wr., thcn-5w Tukpn, ^'/?»i-thu Horpa, ^-ff-hti Gyanin^ 

 See Lmfi 2. Cliiitcse, ^./w//, elutmvg-, K\mi\^ &c. 



3. .v-boni-i'tf Bh, wr.^ hora-^ftf x\iA Lhopa, pwi-thfi lltochtti CliuteBi 

 |ii f/rmt. 



3. kah kah Manyak. f Chinese kn ; broad kwan k^ah, 



1. tTie-?w fiiimnir, fl-ti*wi Leprlra, fl-chun-r Mtithnn, chonf^ Jol^ka, yonf 

 jH^ulim^"-, yr)ii^);-noii<r Tnhhing-^ joh AiigttJiit, ja.ptn* Myiionie A., yoiu-iil 

 Xiinbu, rt;rii janir Miirnii. 



2* ^a-ha fimj^"pkt>,.i«-ije, tc*he Tengsa Kagu, fa-pe-tiau JJ^Jmri, jo-pur M, 



