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ISTBWOLOGT OT THB INT>6 fACIFrC ISLAND*. 



6th. The connection between the proper Sifan dialects m not very clos? ; 

 and they uiu>l have liiid di>iiuct hr?>toriea tnnu a vi^ry imhiiic jwriod. 

 Eftch hiw w ell niai ked m^ciaiitie.-*. The aisrreement consists in a conimon, 

 htit nut idfnticiiU soiu-nimg of tJie Bliotiujj pliojiulugy, and in fiome com- 

 mon ntn-ljholirtu rootA nnd turni!*, lus in the word t'uv iLru:. Thochu hafl 

 m alight ;*|H;ciiil a^ireejni'Jit with Monyuk, — ttoutf Bidff Momifitii. 



In concl'ifiion n »hou A ha remarketi that, in 8o hr ns racli of the vrK"«^ 

 bularieo hm rewh'v.d voinbles iima. Chinei^e or from a sister Tibetan dia- 

 lect, during recent eras, the archaic plof^sariitl relatiuna aniongbt tht* diii- 

 fereut Tibetan tlialecLn, huve been disturbed and obscuiwd. 

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All the Tibetan roots are found in the Southern Tocabularif*. They hnve 

 the ttame funnw, hut variations ore also prevalent, — some of wmthern ori- 

 gin, and otbei-s airhiiu!. The rooti* have nut only lheTibet;ni u|jfjJiitati(inia 

 but others, which are aliio, in several rii>e:<, iirchiiie. The cuniiectioii with 

 the Tiln'tan vucalinlHries not only ernbrate?* nil (busie pbuut'tic aiid ^loa^a- 

 riol |ihaHe.s which tlie existing TiWt^iTi (lata havn etsahled ua to diSL-rimi' 

 nate, but others which are not noM' distinctly laarked in Tibet, and which 

 inUic'ite the arehai': exijitenee ot' eomlitiwis of the Tib«ttut language and 

 dialectic |«*i'uliantie^i whieh are now ubiitccjited, 



Thf labial root i« ii}ipJied to tiie Ct/w and Uw/ in Tii>et; and also to the 

 Cut (liambLijuij), aiul Doq {Lau). It has eoiirtoimntal ^;utturaJ and deuf:d 

 forni!* not only in namcH the Hoff as in TiU tan ; but in riaiut:! tor the 

 CifN', bik, bit, Eh jibuHt piittk, nitig', and Uursi puk, uiuk. 



The Uciuid if aj j^ln'tl to t!ie Cut, Con', ii'i*////w/<i', In/t/t and Bt/r^femm 

 Tibrum J and siImj t«« ibe Ouf/ {Umi}^ hoif (Aliiihnii) iit^'atue, Tujtr and 

 Mt/ttki >/, It lius nut vnly tlie Tilietau IWma la, laii^, ru, rd, Id, rhi j but 

 niiiny utii'M's, loiig^ rmif.'-, mn, run^f, rok (i. e. the lull idiiu ol rd), ruk, rut, 

 ruk, lot, lok, luuk, tak, duk, nak, I'ui, lot, liniTj lif let^ )e, ren, re 



The guttural is a|tj.»hed to the Vifff as in Tihrtan * and almi to the Goaf , 

 Ti(}cr and Monkey. 



The'sibilunf, as; irate and palatal rwtt is applied tt> the Cuiy Ooat, Eh - 

 ffuutt and Munlitg as* in I'iljftan ; and t^j th<? 6Vw, Bu^iiioCf Uarse 

 and Ti§er. It is not a^tplied to the U' tf aa a |n*itnary na/t, but tlie gut- 

 tural in thii*apjilicariun varies to the dental, sibilant, jmlatul and arspirute. 



The dental is, in g-«neral, a vartatiun of the mi^re prevalent attpimte* 

 (sibilant, ((alutui^ a^|iiiate-jrut{urjl). The lihotian dental form for the 

 TufiT o(;rursoiily in two vocabularies, luid tht .^nne form is applied to the 

 i/w/j'a/fe; in souie diulecLs. The j»ure denUd id^ not uiwid for tJie i/wy and 

 the l{<rrs('. The a^pii ales are common roots* for the Tu/tr, IJiy, IlarsCf 

 and are not diatin|ruii<hable troni those for the Vut^ Mvnkty, 6yui, (Jtm; 

 B ttjf 'aiof imil EUphuni. 



itie ninMii, i»ati>iii^ nito the ^"utlural (ng", ny, g), is applied to the Cmv^ 

 Bt{lf 'uii C uiid (jmitf but it iiuftiu nearly every cav-te a direct L^hiuese ori^n. 



'i be j'rimaiilj st*xual nnaub*^ of seVL-rul of the rootB, and their reten- 

 tion Ota merely qtialiave function in many of the current names, ia placed 

 bryoiid doubt by the i kraintiian lan^uage^. We have seen, in eonsider- 

 sng- tlie words of lanjily rtL-itionshii), that the root^j a}ipHed to raalei are 

 the labial under the foruiH ha, pa, wa, va, jjany, poj^ jdio, bu, pai &e.j the 

 Jiij^uid liuder the forniii lanj^-j la, luii^, lu, lo, ru ikc.; the Kibilaut under the 

 lorms i^htu, sau, ehiau, rho, thot^r. thuk ; while thof^e applied to t'e- 

 lOAlefi are the luluid under the ^tm» ma, luo, mu, mi^ Lue> uiaj, mot^ miu, 



