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a fourth poiut of agreement between these languages and the 

 prepositional Araerican forms of speech. The nominative was 

 found to precede the genitive in the Maya-Quiche, and this is its 

 position in the Tongan, as in tama he matahoole^ " the child of 

 the chief." Finally, in Mbaya the adjective follows the noun, 

 and the Tongan he tangata liUe, " a man good," shows that it is 

 thus in accordance with Malay-Polynesian order. There are 

 many other resemblances uniting the twp groups thus compared, 

 such as the absence of gender and the substitution for it of a 

 distinction between nouns as animate and inanimate, the employ- 

 ment of the first person plural in an exclusive and in an inclusive 

 form, the formation of derivative nouns, etc. ; but, as these are 

 common also to many Turanian languages of Asia, they do not 

 aid in determining the origin of Algonquin, Maya and Mbaya 

 speech. 



The grammatical forms of the three American families under 

 consideration being proved Malay-Polynesian, and no other lan- 

 guages in any kind of geographical relation to America, whether 

 in Eastern Asia, Western Europe and Africa or the Papuan and 

 Australian areas, presenting anything analogous to them, it is 

 to be expected that they should be confirmed by equally close 

 lexical resemblances. The limits of this paper will not permit 

 me to set them forth at length, and I must, therefore, refer the 

 reader to my vocabularies published in the Caniidlan Journal. 

 But a few may serve to indicate how close these resemblances are : 



iVLGOKQUiN. Malay- Polyxesian. 



man linnon Delaware, ilenni Shoiono, lanan Javit, ulun Mnlapavj/, 



renoes iiankikani, nemarough remau Amblaio, maroka Gilolo, 



Virginia, 



ethini, eyinew Cree, tane Tahiti, ohana Tonga, 



menaperaa Miami. raondemapin Gani. 



woman weewan Ojihheway. wewimow wewina I'eor, wahine Sandwich, 



Cree, 



child euese Narraganset, anak Malay, dec. 



pappoos Pianhashaio, bibigi Tonga, 



boy necovis Micmac, ngofa 2'idore, 



bawtoos •' budak, Malay, 



unquece " anak '• 



girl epidek " opideka Galela, 



head wile Delaware, ulu, Malay d'c. 



wilan Shawno, ilon Malagasy, 



uppa Algonquin oupoko New Zealand. 



mouth madoon Penobscot, mitoon Cree, moudoo Tonga, motoo Mariannes, 



naraadthun Bethuck. numatea Amhlaw. 



tongue weelauloo Penobscot, ileeloo Tonga, 



otaineni, Ojibbeway. tumoma Matabello, 



tooth nibit Algonquin, wipit Delaware, niffi Malagasy, afod Gani. 



nose yoch OJibbeway, iuka Morella, 



