Praha 0. The purpose of this brief note is to indicate the possible development of the system of Tamil personal pronouns and to try to reconstruct the PDr forms of the same. I have first arrived at the reconstruction of the proto-forms of Tamil from within, and the next step brought the reconstruction of some still earlier forms, possibly PDr. Subsequently, the reconstructed forms compared favourably with the Dravidian etyma and a striking fact appeared: it seems that the PDr system of personal pronouns has been best preserved in Ollari and Parji, partly also in Kolami and Naiki. 1 1. The development of the pronouns may be best shown within five columns of a table (see p. 66). The first column includes the reconstructed Proto-Dravidian forms, the second the hypothetical Proto-Tamil forms, the third the Old Tamil forms, the fourth the modern (Standard) Literary forms, the fifth and the last the modern (Standard) Colloquial forms. 2. Commentary 2.1. 1.p.sg. PDr *d_n, obl. *an, Old Tamil, y@, obl. e_n, cf. Kol. a'n, obl. an, Nk. c~, obl. an-, Pa dn, obl. an, Ga. (O11) dn, obl. an, cf. also Ko. a'n, obl. en, Ka. dn, obl. en, Go. and, Kui dnu, Br. f, obl. (k)an, etc. For the origin of the palatal onglide *@ > y@ (and similarly in pl. *dm > ydm) in Old Tamil and Tu.lu, cf. such pairs as Ta. yd_ru, ~u, river (Te. (ru, river, Go. ~r, water, Kon.da ~, water, Kui ~su id., Kuwi Oyu, ~ju, id.), Ta. ydmai, dmai, turtle, tortoise (Ka. drne, dye, ~ve, id., Tu. ~me, turtle), Ta. y~ai, d_nai, elephant (Ko. a'n, To. a'n, Ka dne, 1 There are some features, in phonology, morphology and syntax, which connect Parji with the most ancient attested forms of Kanna.da and Tamil. Cf. a review of Burrow-Bhattacharya, The Parfi Language, by the present author, in ArOr. 24 (1956), pp. 342-4. Cf. in this connection also the review of S. Bhattacharya, Ollari, in ArOr., 26 (1958), p. 332. *an-*an_ *(nam) *(nam) *am *am *in-*in_ *ira i*im *tan_ *tan-*t~.m *tam *(y)an_ *en_ *(n)am *(n)am *(y)am *era *(n)in_ *(n)in_ (ram__) i *(n)im *(n)im (num) *tan_ *tan_ *tam *tam