Identifier: transactionspr111878newz (find matches)
Title: Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: New Zealand Institute (Wellington, N.Z
Subjects: Science Birds
Publisher: Wellington : J. Hughes, Printer
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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applied it to the samespecies of tree, in whichever parts of their vast regions it had drifted andgerminated, or they may have carried, exceptionally, the fruit with them.Again, in the following examples :— - In Malagaai. Dog ..Cattle .. aviboaombi imbna, Inhambane ; imbua, Sofala ; umboa, Cap Delgado.ngonihe, Tette, Sena, Qiiellimane, Mosambique, Cap Delgado, etc. The dog and the crow are not indigenous words of Malagasi, but derivativefrom Africa, the designations having been imported with the animalsthemselves. Hence, in choosing words found in the various dictionaries for compari^son, I have had the above considerations in view, and have adopted onlysuch as can be held as radical, indigenous, or truly fossil. By this meansthe racial affinities of the separate and far distant tribes can be indicated inthe Barata of the tropics as in the G-ypsies of Europe or the Portuguese in TRANSJ.Z.IN5TIT0T(,V01ILM Sketch Map of INDIA Shewmif Iht Dtstrihuiion of LA NCUACES. JBeames.MB.ji.S..A/
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^^cCS? /<^^^6^^ THE MOLUCCAS J. T. Thomson.—On Barat or Barata Fossil Words. 161 Africa and Asia, tliougii many tribes of both have in these historic timeslost their idioms and phonology, but not the roots of their languages. We may now come to the comparison of words collected from thevarious som-ces already stated,* and in commenting on the same it is hardlynecessary for me to remark that I do so under the conviction that theinsular races were derived from the continental, but I am open to enquiryfrom what continent or portion of continent:— 1. Aerow : zana Malagasi, j^anah Malay, pere Maori. The glossarial indication would denote in the case of the Malagasiand Malay immediate derivation from Telugu in South India, withaffinity to Shan in ludo-China. In the case of the Maori from Garo,N.E. Bengal, with affinity to Great Nicobar, Bay of Bengal.The African affinities in each case are doubtful. 2. Bird : vorona Malagasi, hurong Malay, mami Maori. Malagasi and Malay derived from

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