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define the degree of relationship which exists between the Gonds proper 
and the Kolams. I do not think that this can be done in the present 
state of our knowledge of these tribes. All that can be said at present 
is that it does not appear that the Kolams can be placed in the 
same category with Raj Gonds, Dhadave Gonds and Kutulvar Gonds as 
a subdivision of the Gond tribe, or a tribe of the Gond nation. What 
their exact position is with regard to such tribes is yet to be ascer¬ 
tained. I hope to publish, before long, some notes on the Gond tribes. 
There are one or two points to be noticed with regard to the system 
which I have followed in representing Gond! and Kolami vocables by 
Roman characters and symbols. The term transliteration can hardly be 
applied to this process, both Gondi and Kolami being unwritten lan¬ 
guages. For the sake of convenience, however, I may as well say 
that I have followed as closely as possible the system laid down by the 
Society for the transliteration of the Nagari and allied alphabets ; i.e 
the sounds represented by the Nagari letters are, as a rule, represented 
by the equivalent symbols recognized by the Society. Thus the cere¬ 
bral sounds appear as #, th, d , dh, while the sound of the nasal 
letter is represented by the symbol y, etc. I have deviated from this 
system in respect of the sounds represented in Marathi by the letters 
^ and These I have represented phonetically by the symbols 
ts , tsh and dz. The symbol l represents the sound given in Marathi 
to the letter 35 . I have used the short vowel mark (^ ) over the letters 
e and 0 when those letters represent short sounds. I have also used it 
with other vowels when it has appeared to me to be necessary. 
The capital letters in brackets, (H.), (M.) and (U.) signify Hindi, 
Marathi and Urdu, respectively. In the case of the last named lan¬ 
guage I have designedly drawn no distinction between indigenous words 
and those deriyed from Persian. 
Vocabulary. 
English. 
Gondi. 
% • 
Koldmi. 
Ant (black) 
fatten 
simdl. 
Ant (white) 
udri 
seddl. 
Antelope 
kurs 
pot gory a,. 
Arm 
kai 
kly. 
Armpit 
kutli 
Arrow 
tir ( U.) 
tir ( U .). 
Ass 
• 
gdrdi 
Axe 
mars 
gdlli. 
Back 
perekci 
vtn. 
Bamboo 
vyadur 
vetur. 
