Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . frk^iiK ^si^i 686 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. long geographically to the slopes of theHimalayas, to the valley of Assam, andTribal and lin- to Burmah. The lattercountry is wholly occupiedby people of this stock. InNorthern Bengal there are certain lowcastes, half Hindu and half Kolarian intheir characteristics, who are also thoughtto be Indo-Chinese It is e\i(lent that this guistic divi-sions of HIGH-CASTE HINDU (a
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . frk^iiK ^si^i 686 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. long geographically to the slopes of theHimalayas, to the valley of Assam, andTribal and lin- to Burmah. The lattercountry is wholly occupiedby people of this stock. InNorthern Bengal there are certain lowcastes, half Hindu and half Kolarian intheir characteristics, who are also thoughtto be Indo-Chinese It is e\i(lent that this guistic divi-sions of HIGH-CASTE HINDU (aNANT RAM, PRIME MINISTER)-Drawn by K. Ronjat, from a photograph by Burke. race came into Burmah and Assam by thenortheast passes of the Himalayas. Theyhave clearly had an original commonhome with the Chinese and other Mon-golians of Central Asia. There is asimilarity of dialect, in some instances somarked that particular expressions mightbe understood alike in Bengal and Can-ton. The linguistic designation of theIndo-Chinese group of nations is Thibeto-Burmese. Of this family of languages there are more than twenty dialects: theCachari or Bodo, the Garo, the TripuaraMrung, the Thibetan or Bhutan, the Gu-rung, the Murmi, the Newar, the Lepcha,the Meri, the Aka, the Mishmi, the Dhi-mal, the Kanawari, the Mikir, the Sing-pho, the Naga dialects, the Kuki, the Bur-mese, the Khj-eng, and the twenty dialects are allied in their- T grammatical formation and vocab-ulary like the Romance languagesof Europe. The affinities of theItalian, French, Spanish, and th
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