With regard to the Ethiopic alphabet, which has a certain resemblance to the Samscredamic, there is reason to suppose that it was brought to Ethiopia by those Indian gymnosophists who, in the time of Apollonius, resided on a certain mountain not far from the Nile[180]. Who knows but the Ethiopians, Persians, Thibetians and Peguans might have carried the Samscred language with them from India to their present countries, in the same manner as the _Parreas_, who, according to the testimony of Mr. Grellman[181], fled from India during the tyrannical government of Timur, dispersed themselves through Tartary, Scythia, and Hungary, and still speak a language which has a striking resemblance to the Samscred used in the kingdom of _Guzarat_, and particularly in the city of _Tatta_. This conjecture will appear the more probable, when we reflect that these tribes, in ancient times, had the same intercourse with the Indians, as the Arabs have at present with the inhabitants of the coast of Malabar; that, according to their own acknowledgment, they obtained their religion and their sacred books from India, and that consequently the Samscred language might easily have been conveyed from _Tatta_, _Cabul_; and _Candahar_ to Persia, as well as from _Nepal_ through Thibet to Tartary, and also to Asem in Pegu, and to Ava. The Samscred contains a great many words, which both in sound and in meaning have a similarity to Latin. For example: _dendha_, dens, a tooth; _yuga_, jugum, a yoke; _juncta_, junctus, juncta, junctum, joined; _nau_, navis, a ship; _nàviga_, navita, navicularius, a ship-master; _nava_, novem, nine; _sapta_, septem, seven; _tri_, tres, three; _dui_, duo, two; _adja_, hodie, to-day; _vidhava_, vidua, a widow; _nò_, non, no; _sua_, suus, his, &c. These and other words of the like kind are a sufficient proof that the Samscred language did not exist before the Flood, as Father Pons once asserted. It is more probable that it took its origin in Chaldea, at the time of the general confusion of tongues, from which we must deduce the analogy of many other words used by so many different nations, and consequently by the ancestors of the Brahmans and the Latins. The Samscred is far more abundant in synonyms than the Latin. There are thirty different expressions for the sun; more than twenty for the moon; twenty for a house; from six to seven for a stone; ten for a tree; five for a leaf; ten for an ape; and nine for a raven. The case is the same with other things both visible and invisible[182]. The common Indian dialects, the origin of which is to be sought for in the Samscred language, are the following: