[1313] Bul. Soc. d'Anthrop. 1894, p. 36.
[1314] Droit Coutumier Osséthien, 1893.
[1315] Quoted by Ujfalvy, Les Aryens etc. p. 11.
[1316] The Yagnobi of the river of like name, an affluent of the Zerafshan; yet even this shows lexical affinities with Iranic, while its structure seems to connect it with Leitner's Kajuna and Biddulph's Burish, a non-Aryan tongue current in Ghilghit, Yasin, Hunza and Nagar, whose inhabitants are regarded by Biddulph as descendants of the Yué-chi. The Yagnobi themselves, however, are distinctly Alpines, somewhat short, very hirsute and brown, with broad face, large head, and a Savoyard expression. They have the curious custom of never cutting but always breaking their bread, the use of the knife being sure to raise the price of flour.
[1317] F. v. Luschan points out that very little is known of the anthropology of Persia. "In a land inhabited by about ten millions not more than twenty or thirty men have been regularly measured and not one skull has been studied." The old type preserved in the Parsi is short-headed and dark. "The Early Inhabitants of Western Asia," Journ. Roy. Anthr. Inst. XLI. 1911, p. 233.
[1318] Dih, deh, village. Zabán, tongue, language.
[1319] H. Walter, From Indus to Tigris, p. 16. Of course this traveller refers only to the Tajiks of the plateau (Persia, Afghanistan). Of the Galchic Tajiks he knew nothing; nor indeed is the distinction even yet quite understood by European ethnologists.
[1320] III. 91.
[1321] Even Ptolemy's πάσιχαι appear to be the same people, π being an error for τ, so that τάσικαι would be the nearest possible Greek transcription of Tajik.
[1322] Tribes of the Hindoo-Koosh, 1880, passim.