English. Burmese or Talien or Món. Toung-lhoo. Shán. Siamese. bpa Without pu lee ya en ké bá let-ka-na enla mai khan-ná So h'twa may Thus mwa la mai-pen-yau Be silent tso-neik-ma-tsouk ma уо. ta-kau ta-hlon ee-la-rau lisa-may-nay moo-gau-rau lo-may nay pa-may nay nwa ping ting nga ngen ung-dau lóne lway ung-lan lay law pha khone tway ma-thay keet-nen htoo-tone keet-na htoo-lway ka-toung hya or young kalan heung tiht-ma-ra tha-na han-ma-rai thou-than khá heu hakha kay bá khwa VOL II. Or Weep th6-mahot thee-ha ho-ha bay-thin ba-lai bay-tho tá-sontakhoo tá-tsontáyouk tsa-thee thouk-thee aick-thee nó-thee yay-thee ngó-theo tét-tet naithee pyauhtso-thee la-thee thwáu-thee mat-tal-nay-thee htihn-thee lay-thee pyai-thwau-thee pai-thee yoo-thee yeik-thee that-thee yoa-khaf-theo you-thwau-thee mhyouk-thee na-htoun-thee nálay-thee pyau-thee koung-thee ma-koung chyann-thee hó-to-tseik-ko enan aara Stand up Sit down Tell, relate Bad out-tihn lee yau ma-lee kat English. Burmese or Talien or Mon. Toung-lhoo. Shán. Siamese. chyo neu Hot len poo-thee kata kheu méik met tsen-thee tsen-tsangeet ta-theet chyo hma wen tron wann h’sya htso chánhee ka-tau khu khon khon hla thee gau tá-rá han lan han-tichk hou hikh tsone htsó ogá-ken kot mai thee katsau phren lan bwa khoung tai ling chyo khay h'to young deng tsánn h'to thóhn pú tee pá let tan kalóhn lon-thee kha-toung tung-lung htsee seet-seng htsee-len sau-Pyay hpen wau-thee ka-ra pay awen hyeng hpóln tá-wa mai h'ta-en-h'tee rat-nan ngat-mot khyen ka-lo hpyo ha-khó ok-pyat aotrat N.B.—English system of spelling used in the above, which I have not ventured to alter. Short } man ngay theo Small SECTION VII. ON THE MONGOLIAN AFFINITIES OF THE CAUCASIANS. ALL residents in the East who take an interest in the more general topics of Ethnology must have been exceedingly struck by Dr. Latham's recent imposing exhibition of the vast ethnic domain of the Mongolidæ. From Easter Island to Archangel, from Tasmania and Madagascar to Kamtchatka and the mouths of the Lena, all is Mongolian! Caucasus itself, the Arian Ararat, is Mongolian! India, the time-honoured Aryavartta, is Mongolian ! Granting that this remarkable sketch * is in good part anticipatory with reference to demonstrative proofs, it is yet, I believe, one which the progress of research has already done, and is now doing much, and will do yet more, to substantiate as a whole; though I think the learned author might have facilitated the acceptance of his splendid paradoxes, if, leaving the Osetiť and the Bráhmans in unquestioned possession of their Arian honours, he had contented himself with maintaining that the mass of Caucasian and Indian population is nevertheless of Turanian, not Arian, blood and breed; and if, instead of laying so much stress upon a special Turanian type (the Seriform), he had been more sensible that the technical diagnostics, which have been set upon the several subdivisions of the Mongolidæ, are hindrances, not helps, to a ready perception of the common characteristics of the whole race. * Natural History of Man : London, 1850. + It will be seen in the sequel that in the course of those investigations which gave the “ Comparative Analysis” its present amplitude, I satisfied myself that the Oseti are Mongolian. I do not propose on the present occasion to advert to what has been lately done in India demonstrative of the facts, that the great mass of the Indian population, whether now using the Tamulian or the Prakritic tongues, whether now following or not following the Hindu creed and customs, is essentially non-Arian as to origin and race, but that this mass has been acted upon and altered to an amazing extent by an Arian element, numerically small, yet of wonderful energy and of high antiquity. These are indubitable facts, the validity of which I am prepared with a large body of evidence to establish; and they are facts which, so far from being inconsistent with each other, as Latham virtually assumes, are such that their joint operation during ages and up to this hour is alone capable of explaining those physical and lingual characteristics of the Indian population, which Dr. Latham's theory leaves not merely wholly unexplained, but wholly inexplicable. I must however postpone their discussion till I come to treat of the Newár and Khas tribes of Népal. In the meanwhile, and with reference to Dr. Latham's crowning heresy that the most Caucasian of Caucasians (the Irôn or Oseti) are "more Chinese than Indo-European," I have a remarkable statement to submit in confirmation of his general, though not his special, position; my agreement with him being still general, not special. His general position quoad Caucasus is, that the Caucasian races are Mongolidan; and, availing himself with unusual alertness of the results of local Indian research, he has, at pp. 123-128, given copious extracts from Brown's IndoChinese Vocabularies, as printed in our Journal; and he has then compared these vocables with others proper to the Caucasian races. My recent paper upon the close affinity of the Indo-Chinese tongues with those of the Himalaya and of Tibet, will show how infinitely the so-called “ Chinese" element of this comparison may be extended and confirmed; and my Sifanese series, now nearly ready, will yet further augment this element of the comparison, which in these its fuller dimensions certainly displays an extraordinary identity in many of the commonest and most needful words of the languages of Caucasus on the one hand, and of Tibet, Sifan, |
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