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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1853

1854

the Burmese the Khyeng the Kanii the Ktimi the Mini and the Sfik ; the second five; viz. [...] On those of the Tenasserim provinces the only elucidatory addition is the important one that the Tun;;-lhit are Hillmen " that is dislocated aborigines driven to the wilds or in other words broken and dispersed tribes like the Kliyeng and 4ami and Ktimi and Mrti and Sak of Arrakan whose vocables constitute the greatest part of the first half of the vocabularies herewith forwarded. [...] In the meanwhile the subjoined comparison of several Arrakanese tongues ivith those of Tibet and of the Eastern Himalaya will be read with surprise and pleasure by many who accustomed to regard the Himalayans as Hindus and the Indo-Chinese like the Chinese as distinct from the * Latham's History of Man and Ethnology of British Colonies. [...] That such however even in the rigid ethnological sense is the fact will hardly be denied by him who carefully examines the sujoined table or the documents from which it is taken because not only are the roots of the nouns and verbs similar to identity but the servile particles arc so likewise; and that as well in themselves as in the uses made of them and in the mutations* to which they [...] This is the language of the Arakanese people who for the most part live in the lowlands and on the sea-coast of the country called Arakau.
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Pages
128
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii The Secretaries view
Note by the Editors
1-1 The Secretaries view
On the Indo-Chinesc Borderers and their Connexion with the Himalayans and Tibetans.—by B. H. Hodgson Esq
1-25 The Secretaries view
On the Mongolian Affinities of the Caucasians.—By B. H. Hodgson Esq
26-76 The Secretaries view
On a Geomctrical Measurement of the Distances from Crest to Crest of the Barometric Waves in a Cyclone.—By Henry Piddington President of Marine Courts
77-84 The Secretaries view
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for January 1853
85-112 The Secretaries view
Abstract of the Mcteorological Register Kept at the Field Hospital Rangoon for the Month of October 1852
113-120 The Secretaries view

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