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traHrtn, and t!»«» sfcoadury llimatuie plemt^mt of C:»nra*irtii, Dmviro-Aug- 

 traliati and othw laii^'mii^'e;'. Tho Esit^t Ifiriiijlnu; trihe^* pri»bably oi;rii|ji- 

 etl much of what i.^ no^v eastRni Tibet and western Gbitni ; aud tboiiL;"h 

 the jirecifte line of their Hiv^t sioiith*'ni nii^rnitiotis can lianlly be tmced 

 witli certainty, it iri m.Mt, con^i.^teiit with the fj;*i>n(?nd chamcter of the 

 Miin-Anam g*losiary, tu infer that f hcv tiist fl»\^twTu!t»d info tiie Bnihma* 



Boriuan tribprt, and thmce apmid ov*n* the 0;»OLretic valley^ inixing- with. 

 th« [nior Dnivimiis, ami, in tiie coui-ne of ti*j;f\s, ehniinatiri«r the Dravi- 

 riaii ifbysical tlemeut, thon^^^h retaiaitiir Diavirian pronouns, iitnnerald 

 &c. Of courAf there may have been other more eastern migratioiiH, but 

 the Mon-Ariaiii branch, wbiuh [iredomiijutfd auil s[tread evprywli,ere ta 

 Uhraiudiu prior to thn Tibeto-Burman, bnd primary smfthrrn home 

 au<l nursery in Uen^al or the Bhramaputra-GanHirEic vallpy, fur ita bask 

 of Draviriiin, and of a tiecondary or eorrupt dialect of JJravh'iun, could 

 have been obtiiined iiu where else. " 



The name \s conveuietit in distin^nishinfr tbe viirious elements of Asone- 

 slan elhnolo«rv< Th« latwt of the thrpf^ formalions of the Indian proviueo 

 hiia a|«pnnoiat4^d it» only jreneral mime, vvhii:h is radically Ilimalaic* 

 This na.-* rendered it necesisnry to tulojit; a second name far that tormation 

 whieh wouid olherwieo have had rhe Hrsr. daim tn the desi^-'nj.iitui of In- 

 dian,— the Di'uvirian. A third is rerpninl for ihe intermetliate great for- 

 luation of northern india and iUtraindia. Tihefan might be made to 

 iiielude the Indian an(i Tni!i?iLraii;j;etic hm'4-Uii^'e3 of the proper Tibetan 

 ty|)e; but Mon-Anam has nativ** eharaet^r.^ wliieh caimot b«^ confounded 

 with thofte of tiie ra<ire a«ryth(tid Tibet^tn, ami itia mtwt couveuieut to u^e 

 a distinct name for the formation as w whole, 



J)eceti\bcr 



clu V. sec. X Pronouns and G^aiieiic Particulars. 



fcn'fl. Ailudiuif to tiie hypothesi.-* tliat fmniheH of laujiua^ie had muny dis- 

 tinct orif^ins*^ iie say-* tliat ^'the very roots*, full or empty, and nli their 

 words*, whether munos^yllabic or pnlyriyllabiu muat needs bo entirely differ- 

 ent/' "There may be,4dea be some casual i-oinciLlrnceji hi real woakj bu6 

 the law of combination aftplted to the elemi;nt.s of sound gives a mathemati- 

 cal proot", that, with all allowance.-', that clian;j;'e leys thim one in sx milli- 

 on for tlie, name uorabi nation of aounds si-iMiifyin^ the flame pj ecise ehject." 

 My objectiotirt totiiirt po-iilion have been i^reatly contirmed hy my aul);<e- 

 quent coiiipuririoua of tJhine.-te, ilimalato and ."^L-ytbif roota. The nnmU^^r 

 of tint elementary ftouailti tnnt entered into priuiitivo laniruuire afipeara 

 to have l>i'eii exceetlinu'ly small. The same morioayllahic roots (phorit^tSr) 

 ■je repeated aj;ain and a^ain, and meet u:* in every chuiB uf word* Lii t 

 all other art.^, lung-ua^e wa?*, in ita earlier stai;e.s ruiie and uarmw. 

 Only [iiateaiiU thiufjfii were named; and fo the undeveloped iamiiv of •< 

 Va/eH, few even of these required names. Tim same name rtutb'oed fu* 

 many objeetd liavioff commun pnipenie.s. The ycrowth of the aui lytic 

 facoity must hiive been very &low» Mo^t new natuea wertj but yld onea 



* Smd (wliBuce Iliad, Ind) is a Himaluie rool for rwcr* 



Additionb and CoRRRcnosa. 



