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adjacent iflands, but of thefe we are not able to 

 give any account. 



IV. The principal languages of Africa are, 



48. The modern Egyptian. 



49. The Fetuitic or the language of the king- 

 dom of Fetu. 



50. The Moroccan, and 



51. The jargons of thofe favage nations who 

 inhabit the defart and burning regions. The 

 people on the coaft of Barbary fpeak a kind of 

 Turkifh. 1 o thefe may be added the Chilhic 

 language, otherwife called Tamazeght : the 

 Negritian, and that of Guinea-, the Abyfiinian, 

 and the language of the Hottentots. 



The languages of the American nations arc 

 but little known in Europe. Every one of thefe, 

 though diftant but a few days journey from each 

 other, have their particular language or rather 

 jargon. The languages of the Mexicans and 

 Peruvians feem to be the moft regular and po- 

 lifhed. There is alfo one called Poconchi or Po- 

 comana, that is ufed in the bay of Honduras 

 and toward Guntimal, the words and rules of 

 which are moft known to us. The languages 

 of North America are in general the Algonhic, 

 Apalachian, Mohogic, Savanahamic, Virginic, 

 and Mexican : and, in South America, the Pe- 

 ruvian, Caraibic, the language of Chili, the Cai- 

 ric, the Tucumanian, and the languages ufed in 

 Paraguay, Brafil, and Guiana. 



V.We 



