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hundred. These appear in the Appendix, after the Canary Island 

 comparative table. Accidental coincidences in the form and sound of 

 words may be found, to a certain extent, in all languages, however 

 remotely disconnected. One wonders, therefore, at the statement in 

 the Peruvian Antiquities of Messrs. Rivero and Tschudi : " The 

 analogy so much relied on between the words of the American 

 languages and those of the ancient continent have induced us to 

 make an approximate estimate, as far as our means would permit, of 

 the numerical value of the idioms of both hemispheres ; and the result 

 was, that from between eight and nine thousand American words, one 

 only could be found analogous in sense and sound to a word of any 

 idiom of the ancient continent ; and that in two-fifths of these words, 

 it was necessary to violate the sound to find the same meaning." The 

 one word evidently that the learned authors have discovered is " the 

 Quichua word for the sun, Inti, which unquestionably derives its origin 

 from the Sanscrit root Indh, to shine, to burn, to flame, and which is 

 identical with the East India word Indra, the sun." The real fact 

 of the case is, that the supposed solitary inti is a contraction and 

 attenuation of the Welsh ganaid, the sun, and appears to relate to an 

 old Irish title of that heavenly body, which is ion. The reason why 

 pretended philologists have not been able to discover relationships in 

 languages is their ignorance of the Old World tongues that are 

 suitable for the purpose. The gospels of St. Matthew and St. John 

 have been translated into African Berber, and that of St. Luke into 

 Peruvian Aymara, without the translators being conscious that they 

 were dealing with Celtic languages, so little are these languages made 

 use of in the sphere of comparative philology. 



The three words which first drew the writer's attention to the Celtic 

 element in Peruvian, are the following : 



The Quichua word llama, which denotes the diminutive camel of 

 South America, is the old Irish lumhan, a lamb, and the Aymara 

 pilpmto, a butterfly, is the Welsh balafen. A few words in which 

 d or t is the chief factor will exhibit the Celtico-Peruvian connection : 



