41 ETUVOLOUV Of TUb: I.VOO PACIFIC loLjlVDS. 



connect.^ iL-itlf with the Mun- Armm and Dravirian. uiiih (nls 

 jMiUiYuk), .styuk-liM/ay/, cltlia' immi, ffhtitla star luni jihyukh wniV^are 

 peculiar, and hoth phyokh and ohhu* are Mon-Anam * niid Drjvirlan. 

 It \s pujusibk- thut zyu '<tir TluK-hu L-i a rndical sililunt and not a varuition 

 ot* th« Juitad of tlit^ otlier diulecifl. The Thochu .-libihiut aeiieM uny \)C 

 ehhij' wtyfm, styuk-lo tJay, ssyii UifV, all barfed ou an archaic aihilautf>r 

 /y/iiie aiiiiikir to tho Dniviro-i'Uniindian. Htynk reaemblHa the Na^i nuk, 

 s^a;?, thcMiidejtdiitlurice of wiiich from the Til otaii Uqiiid_ lhak {ti. ilS) iu 

 fartlK'r siip|iorted by the Au)im ajich, Tb« Anara se, ?augf, saoli, thi-t; 

 totj su, thaiih, tlii may be compared with the Drav. te, tbi, ti, ilji; 

 sba, ddiUj za, lu &c. 



In many of the Ultniinda.GauLretic vocabularieii l)oth Di-nvirian and 

 TibetaJi jng-rcdiwit^ are fbutnf in the surae or in closely iillied nariit\H. Thus 

 in tile Garo lam-par « ir, kin is Tibetan and p,^r Drav. Nag^ baa tlie Ti- 

 betiin n;rij nyi-^Scj. in dutf^ and the Draviro-Auara »an, hai3, hi, su Sec. in 

 mn. JVamsun^ baa the Tibetan rane: sky m its coiapuunds, wher»; 

 MuIuufT ha.s the Dia\ irt>-Ultr. waujr, vanj^- &c. 



4, The labia! ruQt id evidently one of the most archaic of the formfdlon 

 in ilA mii lot n-kitc^ llijhU^firt'j ikij^ sun. The radical vowel appears to 

 luvt* betju u, o, and the tiniil tons, k, a.s in the Thocbu whiiij. 



The Gyarung vnriatioH mon sk^ (Thochu mun swi) is the form t<j 

 which siivend of the southern ones are referable (AW, Siiig'pho-Bui'm.j 

 Gurung" &c.,), and the 8irj^^j)ho-!^a^a putig-, moiig- &c, «?> is the saiue 

 Variety. Lau, Aiiaiu and Bodo preserve u final t in Jlrv (nn>t Jire Aji,« 

 jziofrh i'it^ liurm.). 



The furuis ban, wan, l>eb', ber, birj »%, liqht^ sitn, moon, appear to "be 

 Dravirian. They are chiefly found in tbe older sotithern vocbs. Lau, 

 Anam, -Mon, Manipuri ; Bodo, Dhimal, Male, Aisam. 'J'he Lau and Anam 

 liave clase affiuities with tlie Manipuri and Yuma vocbij. {$k^^ lit fht, Jire). 



hi additiun to the forms given above, Pallei^oia' Siamese Diet, suppliea 

 vela diiji identical with the Bliimal bek sun, Drav, bela liffkt. 



The i>i-av. I rwid form for .^kif v\m-am^ mun-am, ban, banu &c. ( ran- 

 laiu star) pon-o, [ also %'in, luin ; /f:r Ix-n-ki &,c. &c.] is yeiy oommon in 

 those Ultramdo-Gan*retic vutubuluriei^ in which Bra vi nan and archaic 

 Tibetan vocabkn are tound mo.'it ahunditntly. Anam has mang- aon^^ d^y, 

 /^it, vang honj^- in whtfb the sibilant is wfiiti, rlrari l/rir/kt k:.^ 

 and man^r, vanj?, v/as probably ttk// or air primarily. The Lau ttui, ha^j 

 sa-wiin|J^^(f/A^ ; fa, fa-fon,^A^ -'fai fire ;t ban, wan, ta-wan, kang-waii sun ; 

 ban, wan dutf. In the Mainpuri {fixmp we find air pban-ra Champh.; 

 Jire^ mai g-enend (Liu liii ); ban, ben, war ; sk^ tan^r-ban, Kapwi, 



tJianp--wun Kh 'ibu. In Sinjrpho we bave^/trt*, wau, Jili ia-wan, ( Laa 

 izi Mijhu MUhmi^Vtf inai ( Maiiipurian, Lau; in 31. M. ai ia a cou. 

 linal). lu the ^aj^a "-roup Mulujig and Tabluntc have gcuerally wjii^j 

 where Nainaan^r^ Muthuu and Joboka have the Tilxstan rang', — s%m wang-- 

 )i3, wan^' ht!, {sk^, fvkite\ nir/ht vang-mak, vang-niak, {s^f/, Ifluqk!)^ god 

 kah-waug, litjhtninf] wang-Bp, thunder wan^-thun^, air wau{?-yan*, 

 cloud Wiiu!^, liaro'has wal, ver ,fire (war light Manipuri gr,)^ Imi-par 

 flU' ( Dhimal bhir-ffm, lnri--?reu the slender Drav. form ); Kumi AU'Wang 

 light, Khycn;^ u-\v.i light, Lungke sky wan, W}ti. 



• The Anam phuck whiie was omitted in p. *9. It is diitiuct fr>Jm 

 the modern l>:ik, of t]!hine5e derivation, 

 t A torn, thic htm, i>ai, wui, &c* 



