ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGES. 263 
ons, France was overspread at different periods 
by Northmen, Goths, Burgundians, and other 
Teutonic tribes. If Albion received its modern 
name from the Angli, Gaul owes its present 
name to the Franks. 
I propose in the following researches to show 
the analogies which exist between the greco- 
latin languages and those of the Teutonic family ; 
to explain certain permutations which take place 
in letters, and the various ways in which words 
are formed from other words. 
We must bear in mind that we have received 
from nature six organs, intended, amongst other 
functions, to vary the vowels or simple sounds 
formed by more or less opening the mouth, viz : 
the lips, the teeth, the palate, the tongue, the 
throat and the nose ; hence consonants are labial, 
dental, guttural, &. That when a word passes 
from one country to another, a letter of one of 
these organs is frequently substituted for another 
letter of the same organ, and that articulations or 
consonants are often added, dropped or transposed. 
We must also recollect that vowels are not essen- 
tial parts of a word—consonants alone constitute 
the basis or root. Two examples will suffice to 
