In India, there are three or four distinct branches of this family of languages. In the north are the Himalayan dialects, of tribes from Upper and Lower Kanawar, on the Sutlej, to the Bhutani of the extreme east. Then we have the Lohitic class, comprising, with the Burmese and others of the Eastern Peninsula, the dialects of the Naga and Mikir tribes in Assam, and of the Bodo, Kachari, Kuki, and Garo in Eastern Bengal. Nearly re lated to this class is the Kol or Munda family, including the Kol, Santa], and Bhumij of Sing bhum and Western Bengal, and the 3funda of Chutia Nagpur. The fourth class is the Tamil or Dravidian, to which belong tho Brahui of Baluchistan, the Gondi, the Tuluva of Canara, the Karnata of the S. Mahratta country, the Toda of the Neilgherries, the Malealarn of Travancore, the Tamil, and Telugu. The Kur or 3fuasi, and the Korku in Hoshangabad, rind westward in tho forests on the Tapti and Narmada, until they come in contact with the Bhil of the Vindhya Hills, and the Nahal of Kandesh, belong to this Kol family ; indeed, 31r. Hyslop held that the word Kur is identical with Kol.
According to Pritchard, the idiom of the isLands comprised in the empire of Niphon, u well as that of the independent Liu-kiu Archipelago, bears sonie signs of affinity to those of the Ugro Tanana!' nations. 31r. Norris had assured him that the principle of vocalic harmony and other phenomena of the Tartar languages prevail in the idiom of the Japanese and Liu-kiu Islands. Ile
also observed analogies between the Tamilian and other dialects of the Dekhan and the languages of Australia, with which we have obtained some , acquaintance through the labours of Mr. Threlkeld land several other mis.sionaries, and from the able researches of Captain Gray. Turkish is a Turanian , dialect, Its grammar is purely Tataric or Turanian The Turks, however, possessed a small literature and narrow civilisatiou before they wero converted to Muhammadanism ; but as the language of Afahomed was Arabic, a branch of the Semitic family closely allied to Hebrew and Syriac, this, together with the Koran and their law and religion, the Turks learned from the Arabs, alono. with many of tbe arts and sciences con nected with a more advanced stage of civilisation. Arabic became to the Turks what Latin was to the Germans during the middle ages ; and there is hardly a word in the higher intellectual termino logy of Arabic that might not be used, more or less naturally, by a writer in Turkish.--/lf. De Guignes ; Sir IV. Jones' Works, p. 72 ; Re port Brit. Assoc. ; TVh. H.; Pritchard Bunsen; ; Logan, in J: Ind. Arch. ; Hy;lop, Jour. Ant. Soc. Nagpur.