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V. --THE NORTHBRK AND OUTER GROUPS. 8.- Proofs of the identity of the Northern and Southern Groups of Languages.
Of the Five Languages of the Northern (Yērewa) Group, two, Körâ and Tabó, are still quite unstudied, the knowledge of the existence of the Tribes speaking them being of less than two years? standing, and the Language of the Yēre Tribe is very little known. Portman has, however,.preserved long lists, unfortunately to be treated with much caution, of Kade and Chêriêr words, together with many sentences, and it will be sufficient here to give a series of roots and stems, showing where the Northern and Southern Languages meet and how closely related they are by roots : premising that the syntax and word-structure of the Northern Group is identical with that of the Southern Group, and that affixes, notably the radical prefixes, are used precisely in the same way in both Groups. It is in the naties for common objects and things that languages show their relationship, and the Bojigngiji and Yērewa Groups form.no exception to this rule.
Table of some Bajigngiji and Yērewa Roots, showing a common origin. ENGLISU.
BEA. Волахів. KEDE.
CHÅRIÂR. pig
reg turtle (hawkbill) tàu
tare tor
tôrô clam chowai chowai
chowai: chos grab
būtu peti pata
pata fish
yât taige tajeu
tajeu bow (N.)
chokio chokio
chokie chokwi bow (S.)
karama ko ku
ka wooden arrow tirlech tolo
tirleich tirleit wooden pig a. påligma paligma paligma. paligne wooden a. head châm
cham ohôm
chom harpoon string
betms kôri betmô,
luremo bamboo bucket
bire
kup shell-dish
chidi kar
kar shell-cap (nautilus) ôdo
kor kar
kor adze
wolo wole WO
olo baby-sling
chepe chipa
chibs oord-ornament
ika leaf-wrapper
kaba
kobo red-ochre
kòiob keyep keip
keip stone hammer tailibana me
mio
með stone anvil
rârap rarap rorop
rôrop canoe
DO го
rua c. outrigged
chârigma charikma chorok chorok The same community of roots is to be seen in the names of the trees on the islands, establishing beyond doubt the close common origin of the Andaman Tribes of the Yērewa and Bojigngiji Groups, though it will, of course, be understood that in full form, with prefixes and suffixes, very nearly related words are in practice unintelligible to the ear. There are, equally of course, a great number of words, the roots of which, while common to each other in the Yērewa Group, differ entirely from those common to the Bojigogiji Group: thur
Table of varying Bojigagiji and Yērewa Boots ENGLISH
BEA.
BOJIGYİB. KEDE. CHẤRLÂM. ornamental net r&b
rap
chirebale chirbale jungle-cat
baian beyen
chau belt, round
bod bel toto
tôtô b. flat, broad
rögun rogan
kudu.
gb|
kup
kar
chip
kậpa
kobu
rūko
chau
