COMPARISON OF LANGUAGES. 



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LATIN. SIOUX. 



animi robur ostensit. Tepe nea-tour toocta ? 

 Lodge your own where is it ? 

 Mea warchee muzarka nea-tour. 

 I want gun your own. 

 Kokepa warneche wecharcha ha. 

 Afraid nothing the man is. 

 Minewarka appello warktashne ha 

 Medicine-water I say not good is. 



A mere glance at the foregoing will at once show the constructional 

 similarity between the two ; and, to illustrate the proposition still farther, I 

 here subjoin yet other proofs of a more important relationship : 



Invictum animi robur ostensit 

 Invincible of mind strength he displayed. 

 Omnia delicarum instrumenta e 



All of delicacies the intruments from 

 castris ejecit. 

 camp he cast. 



Non amo nimium diligentes. 

 Not I love overmuch tlie careful. 



LATIN. 



Appello, (pres. ind., 1st per. sing.; inf. 

 appellare,) I declare, I proclaim. 



Bestia, a wild heasl. 



Cteca, uncertain, ambiguous, confu- 

 sed, rash. 



Cogor, one loho collects, brings togeth- 

 er, compels, forces, or heaps up. 



Mea, (mens, a, um,) of or belonging 

 to me. 



Mena, a narrow sharp fish. 



Ne, (this when affixed to a word or a 

 sentence gives it a negative signi- 

 fication,) no, not. 



PapsB, rai'e, excellent, luonderful. 



Pater, father. 



Pes, the foot. 



Taurus, a bull. 



Tepor, warmth. 



Tuor, (tui, tutus sum,) to look, to see. 



SIOUX. 



Appello, I declare, I proclaim, I tellj 

 I make known. 



Beta, a buffalo. 



Ceicha, bad, disorderly, unsound. 



Cogor, a maker of amjthing, a manu- 

 facturer, one who froduces a thing 

 by an ingenious arrangement of 

 materials. 



Mea, /, ?nyself, me. 



Mena, a knife. 



Ne, (this word is used precisely the 

 same as in Latin, and has a similar 

 meaning,) not. 



Papa, meat, flesh used for food. 



Pater, fire. 



Pea, the foot 



Tau, (or tah,) a bull. 



Tepe, a lodge. 



Tula, (astonishment,) look! see there! 



I might pursue this comparison to a yet greater extent, were my know- 

 ledge of Sioux sufficiently full and critical for the task, (for I have a firm 

 confidence that many other similarities might be pointed out, quite as glar- 

 ing in their character as any of the above ;) but, enough, I trust, has al- 

 ready been said to fortify the position so largely warranted by the pre- 

 mises, to wit : that in former ages the Romans maintained a foothold upon 

 the American continent, and had intercourse with this nation, either by arms 

 or by commerce. 



The argument drawn from the foregoing is still further strengthened, 

 when we take into consideration the fact, that language is constantly vary- 

 ing in its form, and changing the meaning and pronunciation of its words, 

 as time progresses. To exemplify this more clearly and forcibly, let the 

 reader compare the works of standard English authors of the present day 

 with those of the like not more than five hundred years since, and he will 

 readily acknowledge the palpable indications of progressive change. 



