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of the colonizers of America, and through them effect, what Mr. Hale 
would do per saltwm across the Atlantic, a union with the Basques. 
From these general considerations I turn to the special work set 
forth in this paper, that namely which exhibits the relation of the 
Aztecs to the Khitan family in general, and in particular with those 
branches of it which are found in the neighborhood of the ancient 
Hittite civilization. The meagreness of my vocabularies of the Cau- 
casian languages compelled me to illustrate their connection by the 
closely related Basque in the case of the Hittite inscriptions which I 
recently translated. Some examples of the relation of the Hittite 
language spoken in Syria and Mesopotamia in the 8th and preceding 
centuries B.C., may fitly close the argument in favour of the Hittite 
or Khitan origin of these and their related languages. 
COMPARISON OF HITTITE FORMS EROM THE MONUMENTS. 
ENGLISH. HITrivTeE. BaAsQue. JAPANESE. AZTEC. 
dependence kakala katalo kakari cacalic, cetilia 
incite kasakaka kitzikatu, kilikatu keshikake cocolquitia 
oppose kakeka jauki giyaku ixquaqua 
desirous manene min mune mayanani 
beseech neka nastu negau notza 
modest simaka zimiko tsume temociui 
country kane gune kuni cana 
eut kara zilhetze kiru xeloa 
he ra hura, hau are ye 
small sasa chiki sasai xocoa 
put tara ezarri ateru tlalia 
fight tiketi zehatu, etsaigo tekitai teyaotia 
between neke nas, nahas naka netech 
hastily sakasakasa takataka sekaseka iciuhcayotica 
destroy kasa chikitu kachi cacayaca 
lay waste susane ZUZi susam xixinia 
accord kane on-gune kanai cen 
come al el, hel iru, kuru vallauh 
house taku tegi taku techan 
Vy ne ni mi ne 
within tata ta, hetan tate titech 
at ka gau oku co 
in ne an, n ni 
vex nebala — naburi navallachia 
hear kika — kiki caqui 
ruler basa —- bushi pachoa 
friend tineba — tomobito tenamic 
From these examples it appears that the best living representative 
of ancient Hittite speech is the Japanese, which, with the Aztec 
down to the time of Spanish conquest, has never ceased to be a liter- 
ary language. 
Standing midway between the long-forgotten Hittite 
