PART II. 



ON THE LANGUAGE OF THE NEW ZEALANDERS, 



CHAPTER I. 



Introductory Remarks. 



IT is shown by the researches of Ley den, Hum- 

 boldt, Marsden, Chamisso, Bopp, and others, that 

 the languages which are spoken by all the 

 islanders in the great ocean, excepting the Austral 

 negroes, with whose languages we are not suffi- 

 ciently acquainted to judge, are more or less related 

 to each other. Such relationship has been proved 

 between the Tagalo, Bisayo, in the Philippine 

 Islands, the Kawi language in the island of Java, 

 the languages of the different divisions of the Poly- 

 nesians, and the Malayan language properly so called. 

 The last has been regarded as the mother tongue, 

 and has in its turn been shown to be connected 

 with the Sanscrit. But although the Malayan lan- 

 guage is most widely spread, we are scarcely justi- 

 fied in calling it the parent root of all the rest, the 



