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borrowed Aryan forms for the numerals ‘three’ and above. Aryan forms are
also used commonly for the first two numerals.
The following list of Malto words is for comparison with the Tamil originals.
| Tamil |
Malto |
Meaning |
| |
|
|
adu (it)
|
ƒth
|
he, she, it |
avar
|
owar |
they |
oru
|
ort, |
art one |
ka–
|
kƒn„
|
eye |
m‡kku
|
muna |
nose |
pal
|
pƒla
|
tooth |
| kƒdu
|
k„du
|
ear |
| kai |
k„kha
|
hand |
maran
|
man, |
manu tree |
t„˜
|
tilah |
scorpion |
| maga˜
|
moki |
daughter |
| ƒ˜
al, |
alla |
man |
var,
|
vƒ
bar-en |
come |
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|
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Declension
of a noun-manu, tree
| Nom.
|
man-h
|
| Acc. |
mane |
| Inst.
|
manet
|
| Dat. |
manik
|
| Abl.
|
mannte
|
| Gen.
|
manki
|
| Loc.
|
manno
|
| Voc. |
o manu |
Brahui
and Malto are the North-westernmost and North- easternmost members of
the Dravidian family of languages, respectively. They are far apart without
any other member of the family intervening, and farthest removed from
Tamil. This accounts for their high degree of corruption and their consequent
unintelligibility to the Tamilians, which characteristic is posessed in
common by all the Dravidian languages spoken to the north of the Telugu
country, whose northern boundary can be taken as the
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