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  CONCLUDING 
  REMARKS. 
  139 
  

  

  substantiated. 
  Turner 
  had 
  v< 
  icabularies 
  collected 
  by 
  Lieut. 
  Simpson 
  

   and 
  by 
  Capt. 
  Eaton, 
  and 
  also 
  one 
  collected 
  by 
  Lieut. 
  Whipple. 
  

  

  The 
  small 
  amount 
  of 
  linguistic 
  material 
  accessible 
  to 
  the 
  earlier 
  

   writers 
  accounts 
  for 
  the 
  little 
  done 
  in 
  the 
  way 
  of 
  classifying 
  the 
  

   Pueblo 
  languages. 
  Latham 
  possessed 
  vocabularies 
  of 
  the 
  Moqui, 
  

   Zuni, 
  A 
  c< 
  una 
  or 
  Laguna, 
  Jemez, 
  Tesuque, 
  and 
  Taos 
  or 
  Picuri. 
  The 
  

   affinity 
  of 
  theTusayan 
  (Moqui) 
  tongue 
  with 
  the 
  Comanche 
  and 
  other 
  

   Shoshonean 
  languages 
  early 
  attracted 
  attention, 
  and 
  Latham 
  pointed 
  

   it 
  out 
  with 
  some 
  particularity. 
  With 
  the 
  other 
  Pueblo 
  languages 
  he 
  

   does 
  little, 
  and 
  attempts 
  no 
  classification 
  into 
  stocks. 
  

  

  GEOGRAPHIC 
  DISTRIBUTION. 
  

  

  The 
  Zuni 
  occupy 
  but 
  a 
  single 
  permanent 
  pueblo, 
  on 
  the 
  Zuni 
  

   River, 
  western 
  New 
  Mexico. 
  Recently, 
  however, 
  the 
  summer 
  vil- 
  

   lages 
  of 
  Taiakwin. 
  Heshotatsina, 
  and 
  K'iapkwainakwin 
  have 
  been 
  

   occupied 
  by 
  a 
  few 
  families 
  during 
  the 
  entire 
  year. 
  

  

  Population.— 
  The 
  present 
  population 
  is 
  1,613. 
  

  

  CONCLUDING 
  REMARKS. 
  

  

  The 
  task 
  involved 
  in 
  the 
  foregoing 
  classification 
  has 
  been 
  accom- 
  

   plished 
  by 
  intermittent 
  labors 
  extending 
  through 
  more 
  than 
  twenty 
  

   years 
  of 
  time. 
  Many 
  thousand 
  printed 
  vocabularies, 
  embracing' 
  

   numerous 
  larger 
  lexic 
  and 
  grammatic 
  works, 
  have 
  been 
  studied 
  and 
  

   compared. 
  In 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  printed 
  material, 
  a 
  very 
  large 
  body 
  of 
  

   manuscript 
  matter 
  has 
  been 
  used, 
  which 
  is 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  archives 
  of 
  

   the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Ethnology, 
  and 
  which, 
  it 
  is 
  hoped, 
  will 
  ultimately 
  be 
  

   published. 
  The 
  author 
  does 
  not 
  desire 
  that 
  his 
  work 
  shall 
  be 
  con- 
  

   sidered 
  final, 
  but 
  rather 
  as 
  initiatory 
  and 
  tentative. 
  The 
  task 
  of 
  

   studying 
  many 
  hundreds 
  of 
  languages 
  and 
  deriving 
  therefrom 
  ulti- 
  

   mate 
  conclusions 
  as 
  contributions 
  to 
  the 
  science 
  of 
  philology 
  is 
  one 
  

   of 
  great 
  magnitude, 
  and 
  in 
  its 
  accomplishment 
  an 
  army 
  of 
  scholars 
  

   must 
  be 
  employed. 
  The 
  wealth 
  of 
  this 
  promised 
  harvest 
  appeals 
  

   strongly 
  to 
  the 
  scholars 
  of 
  America 
  for 
  systematic 
  and 
  patient 
  labor. 
  

   The 
  languages 
  are 
  many 
  and 
  greatly 
  diverse 
  in 
  their 
  characteristics, 
  

   in 
  grammatic 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  in 
  lexic 
  elements. 
  The 
  author 
  believes 
  it 
  is 
  

   safe 
  to 
  affirm 
  that 
  the 
  philosophy 
  of 
  language 
  is 
  some 
  time 
  to 
  be 
  

   greatly 
  enriched 
  from 
  this 
  source. 
  From 
  the 
  materials 
  which 
  have 
  

   been 
  and 
  maybe 
  gathered 
  in 
  this 
  field 
  the 
  evolution 
  of 
  language 
  can 
  

   be 
  studied 
  from 
  an 
  early 
  form, 
  wherein 
  words 
  are 
  usually 
  not 
  parts 
  

   of 
  speech, 
  to 
  a 
  form 
  where 
  the 
  parts 
  of 
  speech 
  are 
  somewhat 
  differ- 
  

   entiated; 
  and 
  where 
  the 
  growth 
  of 
  gender, 
  number, 
  and 
  case 
  systems, 
  

   together 
  with 
  the' 
  development 
  of 
  tense 
  and 
  mode 
  systems 
  can 
  be 
  

   observed. 
  The 
  evolution 
  of 
  mind 
  in 
  the 
  endeavor 
  to 
  express 
  thought, 
  

   by 
  coining, 
  combining, 
  and 
  contracting 
  words 
  and 
  by 
  organizing 
  

   logical 
  sentences 
  through 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  parts 
  of 
  speech 
  and 
  

  

  