COMPARATIVE LEXICOLOGY 



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Al'tLT a careful exauiiuatioii of tbe collated lists of uames purporting to signify 

 "tongue" in tbe Seriau and Yuman languages it will be seen tbat tbe relationsbip 

 conjectured to exist between tbe two groups is fortuitous or coincidental ratber 

 tban real. Tbe guttural rougb breathing x preceding tbe / sound iu M Pinart's 

 record, .and indicated by an apostrophe in Mr Bartletfs spelling and by an s in Pro- 

 fessor McGee's orthography, is clearly wanting in all the Yuuiau terms cited. Wei'e 

 there linguistic relationsbip between the two groups of terms here compared it would 

 seem that this sound should find a place in one or another of tbe long list of Yuman 

 terms, notably divergent among themselves. It is possible, if not probable, that the 

 final /, la, or ra of the Yuman terms is not a part of the stem ; but this would not 

 afTect the want of accordance noted above. 



An aualytie investigation of tbe compar.ative list of vocables purporting to signify 

 "tooth" in tbe .Serian and the Yuman languages discloses no evidence of genetic 

 relationship between them. Those who classify the Seriau speech as a dialect of the 

 Yuman cite the Yuman iilo, hidhii (tbe eh-iloli of Lieutenant Bergland), signifying 

 "tooth", as one of the vocables indicating a genetic relationship between the two 

 grou]i8 of languages. Tbe comparison is made between the idu, hitlhii, and eh-doh cited 

 above and tbe close variants of the .Serian ala'st. An inspection of the comparative 

 list of names for "tooth " shows tbat this particular Yuman form is confined to the 

 Mohave. Maricopa, and Kutcban dialects (for the M'mat, which also employs this 

 term, i^ nearly identical with tbe Kutch.an). and tbat the remainder of the Yuman 



