Note 19 — Chapter XXVI · PERSONAL NAMES

I think there is little doubt that the Toda language is much more nearly allied to Tamil than to Canarese, and I believe that the contrary opinion of Dr. Pope was due to the inclusion in his material of many words borrowed by the Todas from their Canarese-speaking neighbours, the Badagas. Malayalam is closely allied to Tamil, differing from it chiefly in its disuse of the personal terminations of the verbs and in the large number of Sanscrit derivatives,19 and I should like to make the suggestion, for the consideration of Dravidian philologists, that there is a close resemblance between the Toda language and Malayalam, minus its Sanscrit derivatives.