Indian Migrations, as Evidenced by Language: Comprising the Huron-Cherokee Stock, the Dakota Stock, the Algonkins, the Chahta-Muskoki Stock, the Moundbuilders, the Iberians (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1330595076 ISBN 13 : 9781330595077

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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BlIWAGE, The only satisfactory evidence of the affiliation or direct relationship of two communities, apart from authentic historical records, is to be found in their speech. When 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 commu nities. This is a rule which, so far as experience goes, admits of no exception. The cases which are frequently referred to, of negroes in theW est Indies and theS outhern States who speak English, French, Spanish and Dutch, and of Indians inC anada and Mexico who speak French 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 every one of these cases, there has been not merely an intimate connection of these negroes and Indians with people of the nations whose languages they have adopted, but a large infusion of the blood of those nations. It may be affirmed with confidence that no contrary example can be shown. If an explorer should find in the heart of A frica, or in some newly discovered island of A ustralasia, a black and woolly-haired people whose 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 without 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 in fusion of Arab blood. I f, 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, complexion and hair of A ra
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330595076
• ISBN 13: 9781330595077
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 35
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