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Observations on the 



[No. 37, 



land or Scotland. In Gondi we find the local ablative terminate in 

 al ; while in Tamil this termination belongs to the instrumental ab- 

 lative by : possibly there may be examples in which from, by, with 

 have nearly the same meaning. In the Gondi plur&l the nominative 

 is or, while ar (the same sound I conceive) is quite common in Tamil, 

 usually with some honor attached to its subject. In the Gondi k 

 occurs as the dative plural, the vocative and ablative are as the sin- 

 gular, but added to the plural terminations. 



In pata a song (a Tamil word) the declension in the singular is as 

 in the other word, before specified. The nominative plural is patang, 

 showing that the Gonds in pronouncing, eat tip the termination ; so do 

 the very low people at Madras ; the full sound is gal or Teal. The 

 dative patangk fully developed in Tamil is pdtangaluku. But the 

 Gondi dative is also the same as used by low servants and low peo- 

 ple, when speaking colloquial Tamil. The vocative and ablative plu- 

 ral are as before. 



The Gondi word nar a village is (from the affinity of r and d) 

 pretty certainly the Tamil ncldu. It means a province or district. 

 But a common addition to it of purattil or purattdr is used as mean- 

 ing in the neighbouring villages, or the country villagers. The re- 

 marks before made apply to the declension of this word ; and the 

 uniformity of the transposition in the vocative, locative, and ablative, 

 forms, is observable. 



Viringi, a finger is in Tamil Viral ; but the plural virsk is as the 

 very low colloquial in Tamil of the lowest people. 



7. Of pronouns. Ana, I is nearly the old Canarese an and dif- 

 fers only slightly from ennai the accusative me in Tamil ; but the in- 

 flexion? of this pronoun rather follow the Telugu. Nawa mine, Te- 

 lugu na-yoca, nathu. Nak to me, Telugu naku ; but nawdl from me 

 blends the Telugu root, and the Tamil termination. The plural 

 amdt we is the old Canarese dm : Maiva, ours, and Mak to us, assimi- 

 late with the Telugu. Mawdl from us, is Telugu, and Tamil blended. 



While making these notes my attention was (on another account) 

 attracted to the Rev. Dr. Schmid's paper on the affinity of languages, 

 in No. 12, Literary Journal for January, 1837 ; and I therein observe 

 that on is I, and om we, in the dialect of the aborigines of the Neil 

 gherries. These are nearly the same sounds as ana, I, and amdt, we, 

 of the Gonds. The analogy to the Tamil is onru, one, the numeral, 

 and yam Tamil (high dialect) we. But besides the very general 



