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Remark 1.— The general agreement of the Armenian with the Hun- 

 garian conjugation, especially in the plural, is surprizing. It evidently 

 shows that the Hungariansmust have come from the Himalayan range, 

 and it must powerfully draw the attention of the public to the Tibetan 

 researches of Koros, the learned Hungarian. 



Remark 2. — The Bohemian appears to be an equally remarkable 

 middle-link between the Armenian and the Sanscrit tribe (Greek and 

 Latin). To save room, I have omitted in this synopsis the Sanscrit ; 

 the similarity of which with the Greek and Latin is well known, as 

 dodami, dodasi, dodati, with SiBwfii, BiSwv, BiBw<ri, and with do, das, 

 dat ; especially if we remember the subjunctive, dem or legam, where 

 the original letter of the first person, m, re-appears. (It scarcely needs 

 mentioning,that I have purposely put Tifiaojae^ or vtfiiofies and Ti/xaovri 

 according to the Doric dialect, instead of Tijuwjuev, &c, in order to 

 make the uniformity more evident). 



Remark 3. — The agreement of the conjugation of the language of 

 Basse-Bretagne may be owing to Latin immixture, unless other facts 

 prove this language to be an independent Celtic dialect. 



Remark 4. —The other tenses of the Armenian conjugation, having 

 the letter z as a distinctive mark of the first past tense, and of the 

 future, agree with the Greek in a remarkable manner. I add also the 

 perfect tense of the dialect of Basse-Bretagne, as being analogous. 



4. Armenian Conjugation of the other Tenses: 



1 Past. Sirezi, sirezir, sireaz, sirezak, sirezik, sirezin. 



2 Past. Sirealem, sireales, sireale, sirealemk, sirealek, sirealen. 

 Plup. Sirealei, sirealeir, sirealer, sirealeak, sirealeik, sireale in. 

 Fur. Sireziz, sireszis, siresz6, sireszuk, siresjik, sireszen. 



Conjugation of Brettany. 



Perfect. Kaniz, kanzoud, kanaz, kanzomp, kanzot, kanzont. 



Remarks.— In the Bohemian language, as well as in the Armenian, 

 the participle of the past tense terminates in / : e. g. wolal gsem, I have 

 called (strictly, I called having am). Every where a remarkable analo- 

 gy ! Neither can I omit mentioning, that the letter r of the 2d person of 

 1st past tense, and the 2d and 3d persons of pluperfect, sirezir, sirealeir, 

 and sirealer, reminds one of the Latin subjunctive, as : audirem, docerem, 

 docuerim; as also the third person plural, sirezin, sirealin, of docuerinr, 

 \ riserinr. I cannot believe that this is mere accident ; but whether a 

 tribe, nearly related to the Armenians, imported into Italy these frag- 

 ments of their conjugation, or whether the Romans, being a branch of 

 the great Caucasian, or rather Himalayan race, after having settled in 

 Italy, through congeniality of mind and language, formed their conju- 

 gation so analogously, I am not prepared to say. 



