10 INTRODUCTION. 



That theme, to which these several items are contributory, is far 

 more comprehensive than a mere dictionary of the speech of a socially 

 unimportant folk. Its purpose is to provide the orderly arrangement 

 of the material whereby we enter upon the systematic study of the 

 principles and the methods of the most elemental type of human speech. 

 As the placing of the Sanskrit within the reach of investigators created 

 the science of comparative philology, even so I indulge myself in the 

 reverent aspiration that the presentation of these data for a widely 

 extended speech of the isolating type will carry our students very close 

 to one of the origins of human utterance of ideas, so close that philology 

 may then be justified in calling upon psychology to explain the process 

 whereby the primitive man has learned to differentiate his animal cry 

 into thought-directed speech. 



