Dravidian languages. It will have to be noticed also, that owing to this confusion, the several Gaudian languages have taken to the classification of nouns not according to the grammatical gender, but by the rationality or irrationality of the things or persons denoted by the words just in the same way as the mahats and amahats of the Dravidian languages
(2) & (4) There are no caseterminations in the Dravidian langs. as in Sanskrit but only suffixed postpositions and separable particles. The only difference between the declension of the plural and that of the singular is that the inflectional signs are annexed in the singular to the base, in the plural to the sign of plurality, exactly as in the Scythian languages. The Dravidian dative ku, ki, ge, bears no analogy to any Dative case-termination which is found in Sanskrit or any of the I. E. langs
Against this, it will be sufficient
