igoo-i.] 



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Here is a series of verbs 



Here are eighteen common verbs perfectly corresponding, after 

 centuries have separated the branches of the parent stock that speak 

 them in the New World and in the Old. Like the Guanche tongue, 

 the Peruvian is Cymric rather than Gaelic ; and, like the former, the 

 Peruvian frequently omits the liquids r and 1, as in the following : 



This species of phonetic decay is a common feature in the history 

 of language all the world over, and finds its most familiar illustration 

 in the Italian and other Romance languages as compared with the 

 original Latin. 



The English word " writing " is rendered by the Quichua quippu. 

 As a matter of fact, so far as is known, the Peruvians possessed no 



