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ASIATIC TRIBES OP NORTH AMERICA. 



Adam, who, after a comparison of Algonquin, Iroquois, Dacotah, 

 Choctaw, Tinneh, Maya-Quiche, Aztec, Muysca, Carib, Guarani, 

 Quichua and Kiriri grammars, adds this important note: "In fact 

 the preceding languages are all more or less polysynthetic, but this 

 polysyiithesis, which essentially consists in suffixing subordinate 

 personal pronouns to the noun, the postposition and the verb, eqvially 

 characterizes the Semitic languages, the Basque, the Mordwin, the 

 "Vogul, and even the Magyar." As far as Americaia philplogy is 

 concerned the question of the unity of the human race remains where 

 it has been fixed by Revelation. I close this paper with a sentence 

 from Dr. Daniel "Wilson's address before the Amei'ican Association : 

 "The same lines of research (as those which have demonstrated 

 Aryan unity) point hopefully to future disclosures for ourselves, 

 helping us to bridge over the great gulf which separates America 

 from that older historic and prehistoric world ; and so to reunite the 

 modern history of this continent with an ancient past." 



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-COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY OF THE TINNEH AND 

 TUNGUS LANGUAGES. 



The material of this and the following vocabularies has been derived from English, French and German 

 sources, with variant orthography. I have not thought fit to make any other alteration than that of replacing 

 the German j with y, as such English vowel sounds as aft, ee sufficiently attest their origin. 



TUNGUS. 



ngala 



tukka 



shuko 



kanmlt 



keki, kuti 



tshurkan 



sektau 



chukito 



gasha 



doghi 



sachalin 



shosha 



sugal 



djaw 



kuakan 



kiltora 



aki 



chjukun 



etsohe 



buja, bujadjui 



uli, aljukan 



kunga 



tetiga 



inginikde 



inginishin 



yuUishiu 



tsehi 



tsohirit 



tirgani 



unadju 



buchu 



undau 



koldakoo 



schen 



korot 



