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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1853

1854

The peoples of Sok-yeul of Amdo of Thoellit of Gyarting and of Manyak who are under chiefs of their own styled Gyabo or King Sinicd Wang bear among the Chinese the common designation of Si-fan or Western aliens ; and the Tibetans frequently denominate the whole of them Gyfirtingbo from the superior importance of the special tribe of GyarCing which reckons eighteen chiefs or banners of pow [...] 127 that the analogies and affinities indicated by the last series of vocbularies between the HimaVan and Tibetan tongues on one hand and the Indo-Chinese on the other are carried on and confirmed by some of the present series whilst others extend the links to the Altaic group of languages ; the Gyarting Takpa and Manyak carying the chain of connexion onwards from the South-cast and the [...] In a word they are evidently members of that single and vast family of languages the singleness and the vastness of which I conceive to be justly inferrible even from its vocable8: I st because of the similarity of the roots 2nd because of the similarity of the serviles 3rd because of the similar principles governing the uses and the mutations of both and the consequent composition and the ch [...] 1:31 this paper no other than the Olet and Kalmak of Remusat and Klaproth * whilst their coutiOres the liOrpa are almost as evidently Turkish the Turkish affinity of the latter being inferred not only from the vocables but from the complex structure of 1:16rpa verbs and from the quasi Arian physiognomy of the samples I have seen of the HOrpa race.
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Pages
111
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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