188 ASIATIC TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA. 
Japanese are, and the Loo-Choo aree. The Iroquois numerals are 
more Ugrian and Tartar than Peninsular, so far, at least, as my 
vocabularies enable me to judge. The presence of many Ugrian and 
Tartar words in common Iroquois speech is a phenomenon for which 
T cannot at present account. The same phenomenon appears in the 
Quichua of Peru. 
The Iroquois grammar might be Mongol or Tungus as well as 
Japanese or Peninsular. It is neither Ugrian nor Tartar. It marks 
a distinction between nouns as virile and non-virile, similar to that 
- of the Koriak. It possesses a plural in final ke, like the Magyar in 
k and the Mantchu in sa. It has also a dual like some of the Ugrian 
languages. It forms the genitive in the same way as the Ural 
Altaic and Peninsular languages in general, by preposing the geni- 
tive, followed by the third personal pronoun, to the nominative. The 
pronoun in the accusative, or regimen of the verb, precedes it as in 
Japanese, Mongol, &c., but this does not seem to be always the case 
with the accusatives of nouns. Another peculiarity of Iroquois 
grammar is that the small number of proper adjectives in the 
language follow the noun they qualify, while, in the Ural-Altaic 
languages, and sometimes in the Peninsular, they precede. Still the 
possessive adjectives are preposed as well as the word akwekon, all, 
and similar terms. The personal pronouns precede the verbal root, 
and tbe temporal signs follow it, as in Mongol, Tungus and Japanese. 
The Iroquois also agrees with the Ural-Altaic and Peninsular 
languages in employing post-positions only. Like the Mantchu, 
Northern Chinese and Choctaw, the Iroquois possesses the exclusive 
and inclusive plural of the first personal pronoun. It also has 
separate terms for elder and younger brother and sister, in common 
with all the Turanian languages. The Iroquois grammar is thus in 
its main features Choctaw and Peninsular. 
The ball-play or lacrosse of the Iroquois, like that of the Choctaws, 
must be traceable to an Asiatic region, and may relate to the * 
well-known game of the Basques in Western Europe. A large 
family of nations and languages has yet to be recognized, that, with 
the Ural-Altaic class, shall include the Basque in Europe, the 
Berber, Haussa and Kashna in Africa, the Tinneh, Iroquois, 
Choctaw, and, perhaps, the Dacotah and Aztec of North America, 
* The Basque game, as I learn from my colleague, Professor Coussirat, who has frequently 
witnessed it, is all but identical with that of the Iroquois. 
