Him a lay an

Name for a cla of native aboriginal languages of Hindostan, comprising Kooch , Dhimal , Bodo , all closely allied to Nipalese and Bhot . See “E ays by Hodgson,” Calcutta, 1847. Himyaritic or Himjarite . Name for the characters used in some early inscriptions of S. Arabia in a dialect allied to the Mahari of Aby in i a. Mr. Palgrave, “Central and E. Arabia,” vol ii., p. 240, states that the modern Hi my a rites, who speak a dialect of modern Arabic, are called the “reds”: “ahmar” in Arabic; but it seems more probable that they are the Hi or Hy-Mahari: “Hy” being a tribal prefix in Africa as in Ireland. Compare the Hi-breasail, the Hy-Many, or O’Kelly people; the Hy-Fiachrach or O’Dowdy people. The use of the same prefix in Africa is proved by the Ki-Suaheli, the Hi or Ki-Kamba, Ki-Sambal a; cf. the Heb. ‏ה‎; ‏ח‎; which gives the transition from “h” to “ch” or “k”; thus also we may have Ki-Afer for the people of Africa, the original Kaffirs: indeed we have the mature word in Ke-Kuafi, see under U. Hy-mahari would mean “the shore-people.” See Ekhkili . Hinantshi or Hina . African: a igned by Barth to Hamarua . Hindi or Hinduwi . The vernacular language of native Hindoos; it is derived from Sanskrit , and closely adhered to by all the Brahmin castes. It was probably the court tongue of Canaug or Kanoj, a chief city of Hindostan when Alexander the Great cro ed the Indus and defeated Porus, B.C. 327. The language has many branches or sub-dialects, and is written in the Devanagri, or sacred alphabet used in the Vedas; also in Kyt’hí, a sort of running hand. Ballan tyne: “Elements,” London, 1869; “ Chrestomathie ,” Garcin de Ta y, Paris, 1849.