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6. — TheNumerals are likewise an important means of ascertaining the 

 relationship of nations, although not equally infallible ; since one tribe 

 may be induced to adopt them from a quite foreign nation ; as is the 

 case with the Tamulians, who have borrowed the Sanscrit numerals, al- 

 though they use commonly their own original ones, and thus cases may 

 likewise occur, of tribes losing their own numerals entirely and ex- 

 changing them for those of foreigners. 



As a comparison of the numerals, however, may be useful to suggest 

 various other instructive philological observations, a list of them fol- 

 lows here, adding the personal pronouns in opposite columns, for reasons 

 which will appear immediately. 



The numeral One — the pronoun /. 

 lei, Japanese 

 ye, Chinese 

 djigh, Thibetan 

 yak, Persian 



Numeral Two — pronoun Thou. 



i Russian, 

 1 Polish, 

 Wen dish. 



yek, Gipsy 

 hek, Multan 

 ok, Bengal 



Sans. 



egam 

 or 

 eliam 



, accord- 

 ing to 



Tamil 

 orthog. 

 eka, Sanscrit 

 egy, Hungarian 

 ahad Hebrew 

 atiad, Arab, 

 gedenor ? Boh< 

 yeden S 

 unus, Latin 

 one, English, 

 in, ihn, Welsh 

 ein, eins, Germ. 



ick, low Germ, 

 ego 



aham Sans, 

 ich German, 



pron. ih 

 anohi, Hebrew." 

 ga or ya, Bohem. 



on (I) 



om (we) 



ana 



oru, 

 ondru 

 vonnu, 

 onnu, 



} Taraul. 

 } Kara. 



Abor. 



of 

 Neilg. 

 S Arabic, 

 I Abyss, 

 en, Hungarian, 

 es, Armenian, 

 ma, (we) Pehl. 

 mi, (we) Hung, 

 mi, Armenian, 

 my, (we) Bohem. 

 mo, amo, Gipsy, 

 am mi, Hindost. 

 a/i/mcs, Doric. 



Hi, 



TamuL 

 cPehl., Mul. 

 tu, -j Bengal, Gip. 

 C Arm., Latin. 



tui, Russian. 

 t7 rPol., Wend. 

 ■ ' <• Bohemian. 



Doric. 



Ul, C hina 

 ni, Japon 

 gniy, Thibet 

 do, Persian 

 dua, Afghan 

 dui, Gipsy 

 dwa, Sanscrit 



r Sanscrit 

 tuvi, <in Tamul tv, 



'orthogr. 

 &vtt), du, German, 



duo, zween, y 



twitioh, Sanscr. zwo, V Germ, 

 zweite, German zwei, > 

 devrepo?, bai, bos, ^ Go- 



dwa or dva, Bob.ba (both), tthie. 

 twaer, two, Icel. baioth, Gothic, 

 du, bagh, Pehlvi. afrffrorepot, 

 besh, Zend, ambo. 

 bis, Latin 

 dowa, Malay 

 loua, Cocoa- Islands, 

 rua, Taheiti 



shnaim, Hebrew T anta, Arab,Abyss. 

 isnan Arabic, enti, Maltese, 

 tnein, Malta aLta, Hebrew, 

 ketto, Hun gar. 

 ergov, Armenian, 

 irendu, iru, Tam. 

 iradu, Karnataka. 



Remarks 1.— I do not think, that the Chinese numeral, ye, and the 

 Slavonian pronoun y a;— that the Arabic, ana, or the Hungarian pronoun 



