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On the Geographical Distribution of the Languages of Abessinia 

 and the Neighbouring Countries. By ChARLES T. Beke, 

 Esq., Ph.D., F.S.A., &c.* (With a Map.) Communicated 

 by the Ethnological Society. 



A consideration of the Report on the Languages of Africa, 

 made by Dr Latham to the British Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, at the Meeting at Oxford in 1847, t 

 has led me to believe that an acceptable addition to that 

 Report will be afforded by the accompanying map, showing 

 the approximate geographical limits of the several classes of 

 languages spoken in Abessinia and the neighbouring countries, 

 according to that philologisfs provisional classification of 

 them. 



These languages are made by Dr Latham to consist of the 

 following groups or classes : — 

 XIV. The Nubian. 

 XV. The Fitsokl (Fazoglo). 

 XVI. The Bisharye or Bidja (Beja). 

 XVII. The Ethiopic, 

 XVIII. The Agau (Agow). 



XIX. The Galla. 

 ♦ XX. The Gonga. 

 XXI. The Shankala. 

 XXII. The Dalla. 



XXIII. The Takue (or Bodje,) and B4rea. 

 Upon each of these classes I propose to make a few brief 

 remarks, in explanation of the map. 



XIV. The Nubimi Class. These languages belong to countries 

 which are partially shown, merely for the purpose of defining 

 the limits of thti&e A^'hich are subsequently enumerated. They 

 are themselves too remote from Abessinia Proper, to come 

 within the scope of the present observations. 



XV. The Fdtsokl Languages. In this class Dr Latham 

 places only the languages of Fatsokl and Kam4mil. From 



* Kead before the Section of Ethnology of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, at the Meeting ut Swansea, on the 14th August 1848 ; 

 and before the Ethnological Society of London, on the 22d November 1848. 



t See Rejiort of tU Seventeenth Meeting at Oxford, 1847, p. 154, et seq. 



