Indian Migrations, As Evidenced By Language: Comprising The Huron-Cherokee Stock, The Dakota Stock, The Algonkins, The Chahta-Muskoki Stock, The Moundbuilders, The Iberians (1883) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0548613710 ISBN 13: 9780548613719

Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

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I lllllll CII) III IANGNAIIII. l`he only satisfactory eidence of the affiliation or direct relationship of two communities, apart from authentic historical records, is to be found in their speech. Vhen the languages of two nations or tribes show a close resemblance in grammar and vocabulary, we may at once infer a common descent, if not of the whole, at least of some portion of the two communities. This is a rule hich, so far as experience goes, admits of no exception. l`he cases which are frequently referred to, of negroes in the Vest Indies and theS outhern States ho speak English, lrench, Spanish and Dutch, and of Indians inC anada and llexico who speak l`rench andS panish, are not exceptions, but may, in fact, be reckoned among the strongest evidences in proof of the rule; because we know historically that, in eery one of these cases, there has been not merely an intimate connection of these uegroes and Indians with people ofthe nations whose languages they ha eadopted, but a large infusion of the blood of those nations. lt may be affirmed with confidence that no contrary example can be shown. lf an explorer should find in the heart of A frica, or in some newly disco ered island of 1ustralasia, a black and woolly-haired people hose language showed in its numerals, its pronouns, its names for near relationships, and the conjugation of its verbs, indubitable traces of resemblance to the A rabic tongue, we should infer ltl`lO llI hesitation not merely that this people had been at some time visited by A rabs, but that an Arabian people had been in some way intermingled among them for generations, and had left, along with their language, a large infusion of Arab blood. lf, besides the resemblance of speech, there should be a resemblance of physical traits,-if the people not only spoke a language similar to the A rabic, but had the stature, features, complexio
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• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0548613710
• ISBN 13: 9780548613719
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32