■nrfOT-OQT OF TtfB nroO-PAClFlC TftATOS, 



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tti« common dmil, roust iwiw be c!ii«f«>d with the Tiikpa, Kmti, Bonejq 

 grid Kuki nHmes, niid tli« li, la r»'f»*rTpd h> Ujb liquid unit jirewervedia 

 liii>r, rwny, yinjj 10, uriJ imn^ 9,— tbe slender form being' alio, m we have 

 teerif tlint ut'rlie Ahom 1, liri^. 



Thit* identifU'uhoii ufan archaic 1 in the disfruisa of a conrnon form of 

 S Inui-t to ariother i)n|Hirtttftt correctimi. We bive seen that the hqujd 

 wan one «f the inosr uijciftit and widely difFused unit lorm.^ in the iSouthj 

 •ndlbatit wcar-s tvirh th*^ archaii: lalilii prefix,— /J-ram, /J-rajt, p'hvs, 

 fx-tSf jpi-h&o. In Tilw't it if still current an I in the Hor^a ni. From 

 the flRfttojry "t all thr ot.ht^r dliinD^lIiuinlaiu imme*! fur lOO, liwe of (iya- 

 riinif «nd H(»r}iii., ]^&ryc, rhya, rnunt, he the unit ; and their true c]iiHsitii,'.a« 

 iiun would now a(t|ie.»f to l>e with the seoondarv liquid furm and not with 

 th*" priinarj' ^uttunil * howeverstronirly thKliliDtian Ar-*fyit, the c;i)innJOit 

 mfteninir of irya, ixy*' yn, yv, and Mr. H*Ml(;f»o(i'R ortho^rni^fhy (Par-ye^ 

 r Hva) raav mnsiderfd to !*U[tportniy fortner analy-nia (par-yei, r-hya). 

 Tlmt the»»e patiifs are o«-rye and rhya i«* contirmed hy the Slikir 

 jrArt.r, correi*iM)tidin*x with the more wxnnion frt-m, (rt-ya uf thf* adj'W 

 eent dialect.-*, Thi^ reco*fnitioii of a t)i]itid form ot tiie iniii Tibetan, 

 nftmes for 100, net.^eA'^itato the recofnittion of an obnftlete liquid form in 

 H\ and thift tJirowri a new liirht on the li<[(iid furmn foinid in The 

 Bhotiuii and Manyak 8 are dearly h\ and it may now he inlerred that 

 the Thochu frA-ra-r*^ ( ra 1 Iforjia), the Horpa rhiee, and the <iyarnn^ 

 o-ryel (—rye HJ*>)nre aUo 10. TIds inference alrtt involve)^ the "ftimilar 

 itWtheni nam*^, />-rah Kitsia, ;>-re Gnruny', Sfurud, r^^fffi Kimnfi, ra 

 Milchanan^ (utso ltK>), ehtt-riu Shindu, riet Kuki, rjyat Mru, rhac-li 

 Biirni. &e.t Tavin^ ha.-* the name am|il»fiHd vowel hut rhe-ni tin il in itil 

 ^•Ivem 8 (eoin|,K f-khinir I' this eoiioliiaion he the eorreet oue, the 

 only naniafi tor 8 in whid» '2 in |irest*vved aiv theaneiejit Du^iiila /j-Uy: nag" 

 (itself a atron^r iUuHtrutim* of tlie morie in which the tonnn of the nnit and 

 4iual flpj>roxim«t»t I), the Ahor pf-uil and the Mikir nir-kefi. 



The Gyarunff and Hia'p t-omn unify oJ n Mineral fiprmn fo^nd in 100 

 and 9, occurs alw in 7, the Crvarnufr kw^fh'in-A h'\n\r an old Sihin fonii 

 timiUr to the Hor|Mi z-tm, with the current fruttm-ai pretix HUiieraddt d, 

 Both also retain a tfuttunvl u'lit, 11 a-jKi iii 10 an l Uy-a mur in 1. TIib 

 Biftm dialect whieh had the form p*/-ryet in 10, H and MKI, m,t^' have 

 ori>j-inntJ»d the BimtSar )^>uthern tortns found in the iilder Yinna dialeetjt, 

 Mni, Shindu, Mikir he. Tiie Uvai un-r elenjetit. in the ireneraf jflusfl.irjr 

 of the older Ka^t Gan^etic toti{jruK^ we have seen t-o he :*iroii;5. The 

 Mon-Aniim dup^ dam, nun iuid tt.s derivntive:* helon*r to an older move- 

 ment, but amon<r8t the contracted forms it in rlilHciilt to i^eimrate tJuwe of 

 Hon-Anam from those thai may lieoi later Si fan ori^dn. Tlie Kiu*t tJanj^retift 



* But then© r fonnt* may have been from the sr forma dirpi tly, and* 

 Uotthroutrh the dental or mhilant. G a id ji jfutnirid r are phonrtica iy 

 close to each odier, and the (jussage of ^ into r and that of r into g uro 

 common. 



t The other l»n«r«ageB in whieh 10 oecui*s in 8 with the Isqnid foror 

 are Changloyen (for ren), Dhimal ye, Limhc. y. t?, Hnnwar yohP, Kujni,' 

 Kumi ya, Kyau met, Shindii na, iCuki rai, riet, get tor r). 



J The Nofraansr h-ri 4<J (»A«-li 4 Khari, mi, lu U> Noff., Khari) 

 {ei a fumitar exanifhle of an euphonic ttit.'thnilation of aleiider loxiua* In 

 Ibe KhMi U-xaii, lU reUUiu* lU proper fuvm (^u-raU). 



