Compare also the accusative of the first person singular in Tamil, ennei, me, with the Australian accusative emmo.

     The Ghana Engineer Mr. Evans Yao Dzato, who was deputed by the Government of his country to receive training on the Indian Railways, has said during his stay in Madras, that some Tamil words like va(come), p†(go), t‡kku(lift), and d„vi (an appendage to feminine names) are in ordinary use in Ewe, one of the languages spoken by the people of Trans Volta district of Togaland in Ghana, and remarked that many centuries ago there must have been frequent cultural and other contacts between Ghana and South India.

     Apart from the universality of Tamil words, Tamil literature is full of maxims and principles reflecting Tamilian cosmopolitanism, humanism, philanthropy and indiscriminate munificence. The opening line of the 192nd stanza of PuŠanƒ‹‡Šu “Yƒdum ‡r„ yƒvarum k„˜ir” meaning ‘All human habitations are our native places, and all men are our relatives,’ best manifests the cosmopolitan nature of the Tamils. Unlike Sanskrit, the Tamil language and literature are open to all, meant for all and aimed at the good of all. TirukkuŠa˜, the chief ethical work in Tamil, sets forth excellent moral principles of universal application; enjoins on all authorities to mete out uniform justice to all irrespective of caste, creed or community.

    The grammatical structure of the Australian dialects exhibits a general agreement with the languages of the Scythian group. In the use of postpositions instead of prepositions;in the use of two forms of the first person plural, one inclusive of the party addressed, the other exclusive; in the formation of inceptive causative, and reflective verbs by the addition of certain particles to the root; and, generally, in the agglutinative structure of words and in the position of words in a sentence, the dialects of Australia