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Comparision of Asiatic Languages.
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English. Tibetcn. Japanese. ames. Q&aeWi. Night, m,t.han mo, yori, yèy, 4 * Oil, h,bru mar, b4ra, yfu, ] Plantain, k4la, Kind, bdshlyo, tsfau, •45 tlver, g,tuang po, Uw4, k1ng, i: Road, lam, michi, 16, 41 Salt, tabs, shiwo, yen, Skin, pagapa, qalay’q kdw p1, jj 4i Sky, n.mrn,khab, 4(’JflZQ sor4, tang SO Snake, shrul, heN, she, St Star, .kar ma, boshi, sing, Stone, t,do, £sbt, she, Bun, nyI ma, alcbfrin, yih, 54 Tiger, stag, torS, fd, Tooth, in, hI, yl, Tree, ijon slung, ç hi, ihu, .I&J 61 ahing, ‘kZJ Village, yni taho, mIrI, hang, Water, chhu, midad, shul, Yam, dova, tskdnefmo, tI shul, 60

The sounds of the Chinese are written in accordance with the wydm published in the Chinese Repository, for February’, 1838, and the Japanese aIer the list of iminds en pages 83, and 101 of the select papers on Hemanizing published at Serampore. The last i is abort in the Japene. verde, likeg in beauty. The difference between the two kinds of writing shewn by the two column. of KItSkInI and HirIh4a the mIttokIaL Is much like the HirIkInI. The Japanese employ Chinese cbarers to exre.s the same ideas as the Chinese, but often call them by a difirent name. Those marked were probably derived from a common source, and perhaps there are more. The Chinese sound is often known among th. Japanese, but does not seem to be the one moat commonly used.