PRIMAVAL LANGUAGES, 327 
teeth ; their hair woolly ; the colour of their skin dark, of 
a brownish tint. The hair covering the whole body was 
probably thicker than in any of the still living human 
species ; their arms comparatively longer and stronger ; their 
legs, on the other hand, knock-kneed, shorter and thinner, 
with entirely undeveloped calves; their walk but half erect. 
This ape-like man very probably did not as yet possess 
an actual human language, that is, an articulate language 
of ideas. Human speech, as has already been remarked, 
most likely originated after the divergence of the primeval 
species of men into different species. The number of 
primeeval languages is, however, considerably larger than 
the number of the species of men above discussed. For 
philologists have hitherto not been able to trace the four 
primzeval lanouages of the Mediterranean species, namely, 
the Basque, Caucasian, Semitic, and Indo-Germanic to a 
single primeval language. As little can the different Negro 
languages be derived from a common primeval language ; 
hence both these species, Mediterranean and Negro, are 
certainly polyglottonic, that is, their respective languages 
originated after the divergence of the speechless primary 
species into several races had already taken place. Perhaps 
the Mongols, the Arctic and American tribes, are likewise 
polyglottonic. The Malayan species is, however, mono- 
glottonic; all the Polynesian and Sundanesian dialects 
and languages can be derived from a common, long since 
extinct primeval language, which is not related to any 
other language on earth. All the other human species, 
Nubians, Dravidas, Australians, Papuans, Hottentots, and 
Kaffres are likewise monoglottonie. (Compare p. 333.) 
Out of speechless primeeval man, whom we consider as 
