The difference of the several dialects of the hill tribes consists not exactly in the idiom of the languages, but chiefly in their pronunciation. Therefore the same or nearly the same word in the mouth of a Toda with his pectoral pronunciation can scarcely be recognised as the same in the mouth of the Kotas with their dental pronunciation. The Badaga and Kurumba dialects are midway between the former two with regard to pronunciation, only the Badaga is a little more guttural than the Kurumba. There is a little difference in the dialects of the several Badaga tribes, those who came at a later period to the hills-for instance the Kangaru ("Lingaites"), who emigrated from Targuru-speaking a purer Canarese than the common Badagas.

The names

The Todas also have some slight difference in their pronunciation according to the different districts they inhabit; for instance, some pronounce the s quite pure, others like the English th, and others like z.* of the Toda tribes are not quite correct in the letter of Mr. Hodgson. They are the following five: Peikee, Kenna, Pekkan, Kuttan, Tódi. The chief tribe is the Peikee, which pronounces the s like th.

The th English is more especially Burmese; the rest is generally true of the northern tongues, which, even when they possess an ordinary sibilant series, prefer the use of the equivalent z series, or 2, zy (Ellis' zh) and dz, whereof the first is a simple sound; the second a sliding sound, as in azure, pleasure, English, and the French jin jeu; the third is the harsh modification of the sound. Several consonants besides 2 take the sliding sound represented by the blended y. This modification of the primitive sound of the precedent consonant may be seen in respect to the consonant p in the English pure and puling, which I write pyur and pyuling; and so of all consonants followed by y. Another almost universal trait of Tartaric phonology is the exceeding commonness of the French eu, as heard in jeu aforeBaid. In the above paper I have not thought it prudent to meddle with Mr. Metz's orthography.