and to some few tribes of mountaineers. The different
languages of the Dravirians have some characteristics
common to the idioms of High Asia and e ven to, those of the
Indo-Chinese Peninsula. The following remarks are collected
from Ellis’s introduction, and from Campbell’s
Grammar of the Telugii
Nouns in the Telugu are declined by postpositions instead
of the-prepositions of modern European languages. This,,
as we shall have occasion to observe, is a remarkable trait
common to the languages of Great Tartary or High Asia;
and many of the idioms of the Indo-Chinese Peninsula.
Many of these postpositive particles are in reality parts of
nouns or verbs :, they must be considered as originally
separate words. From the addition of these, fp the nouns
a sort of declension is produced. Adjectives,, as in all the
Tartar languages, are indeclinable ,in the Telugu. They
have neither gender, number, nor case.
Possessive pronouns, as in those-languages, are.oidy the
genitive cases of the personal, pronouns.
One very remarkable trait in which the grammatical
structure of the Telugji coincides, with that- of the Tartar
languages,, consists in the want of any relative pronouns
properly^ so termed, nnd in the inodofoy which, their p^ca,-is
supplied, by means of relative participles. These relative
participles,. which, are forms of the verb, admitting, as in
the Mongolian, Ouigour, and Mandschu languages, no p$rT
sonal terminations, have, a§ in all these idioms, the force of
the English, who, which, that, inherent in them. The
phrase, “ a"tree that grows”, would be expressed in Telugu
as in Ouigour and Mongolian, with, a .relative participle.
The inflections of verbs are formed by postfixing the
personal pronouns to participial forms of verbs.
The collocation of words is difinitely fixed in the Telugu,
in which respect it coincides with the Tartarian languages.
The principle on which the regulated collocation is founded
is nearly the same, in both sets of languages. The verbal
participles, denoting the less important relations, are placed
first in a sentence, which terminates with the verb expressing
the principal act. An example is the following :—
“ Reducing to dust the arrows of his foes, piercing the
bodies of his enemies with his own arrows, and animating
tbe'sjfirits of his soldiers, Arjuna ruled frbe battie.’h
From these rémarks it is obvious that the Dravirian
languages differ most decidedly- from all Indo-European
idioms, and that they greatly resemble in many very striking
peculiarities tbe languages "of North-Eastern Asia»*
It would he a matter of interesting result if I t could he
determined what relation the Dravirian dialects hear to the
numerous barbaric idioms spoken by races fro the eastward
of Raj amahal and in thé neighbourhood of Assam, for in this’
direction we mustjrfcflskrfche'ingress of the Southern Indians.
We have sèèn that the natives oftheHaj amahal-hills are said
to have broàd-faCed,:-skulls a-ûd a ‘général resemblance to the
Tufranian JTlfeeSÿ and« although we have very imper&ot
accounts off the physical characters of thé aborigines of the
Indian mountains,1" it is very easy-to discover that-the same
characteristics prevail moresor l-ess in several-of the tribes.I*
It is not; improbable that tribes of frhe same ffimily may
have cve^pread^ryaVaryAself in remote ages and before
it was entered by the Indo-European race who now hold
possession of it. The aborigines Were probably expelled.
Remains- offthem are perhaps the OEhite in the Vind’hya
Mountains, and the Gonds; o f Gondwana. These? are
diminutive races like the bribes of frho lndo-Cfoin'^i jBehih“
sula. The differencein form and the! want :of any philological
proofs throws' much doubt On* tbeahypothèsis ; frequently
taken for granted, that the iParriahs are the
offspring of conquerfedand degTadediiborigiwfesie y
The. great bodymf the Hindfi race, .and not the Brahmans
and Xatriyas alone, wereprobably migrants from beyond the
Indus. It has bèen remarked, that they partook of one
* Those who have not studied the structure b f lh e lah ^M ges of High Asia
a lid Turkistâhvçillhppreciafià thehoïcb bf'tÈisse ôfrserVâtïônshet’ter after they
shall have perused afolfowing chapter of this voïiMiél-Vi:
t In many portraits ofTanmlian and other Dravirian ndtiVes <#th£®ek-han
a certain resemblance t.9 !.the Malay physiognopay may. be detected-. This tnay
he noticecCin.the sculpt and paintings to h ^ se g p in the rpoms of .the
Hoyal Asiatic Society ofLotadôn. ' On the other hand“,the Tudas, of whom
there are several beautiful paintings, are, as it may be observed, a people of
fine European featured.