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of the Gimant [Kamaunts]." All this is in conformity with 

 my views as to the aboriginal character of the Agau class 

 of languages, and of their great extension throughout Abes- 

 sinia,* which has already been adverted to under No. XVll. 



B. The Galla Class, which consists of — 



1. The Afar Proper, " spoken by the Addl, Taltal, Talfen, 

 &c. ;" which is no other than the Addl, or Dank41i {plur. 

 Danakil) of modern travellers in Abessinia (Latham, xix. 

 B. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8). 



2. The Saho, " spoken by the Hazaorta and Toroua," is, 

 in like manner, the language of the Shihos, or Shohos, who 

 dwell between Massowah and the high land of Tigre (xix. 

 B. 3, 4). 



3. The Ilmorma, spoken " by the Orme or Oromo, better 

 known under the name of Galla^ Of course, this is the widely- 

 spread Galla tongue, with which we have now become so 

 well acquainted, through the labours of Krapf and Tutschek 

 (xix. a.). 



4. " The Szomaliod, spoken by the Szomal^' which again is 

 merely the language of the equally well known Somaulis or 

 Somdlis (xix. C), of which name the Arabic plural is Somdl. 



The Tufte (Toufte) is stated by M. d'Abbadie to be 

 " spoken by a small nation near the Tambaro, and issued, 

 according to their own traditions, from the same ancestors 

 as the Orme," i. e. the Gallas. Of this language, the tra- 

 veller's collection consists of ten words, which, as he himself 

 obsei'ves, " is only better than nothing at all." I would add, 

 that such a number of words is scarcely sufficient to enable 

 us to class this language, which, even in spite of the tradi- 

 tion alluded to, I am inclined to place among those of the 

 Gonga class (xx.), by which it is geographically surrounded. 



My opinion is the same with respect to the neighbouring 

 language of Tambaro, which M. d'Abbadie considers to be 

 " a member of the Amhara family" (xvil.), but which I 

 would equally place in the Gonga class (xx.). 



* These opinions were first expressed by me in A Statement of Facts relative 

 to the Transactions between the Writer and the late British Political Mission to the 

 Court of Shoa, p. 13, n. 



