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ideas themselves. And in this way there would be a strong tendency 

 to retain the form unchanged. 



If we examine carefully the Egyptian and Semitic vocabularies^ 

 we shall discover a considerable Semitic element as an essential factor 

 of the Egyptian language, not Semitic proper names or terms intro- 

 duced during the time of the Thothmes and Rameses of the 18th and 

 19th Dynasties, or even prior. But we shall find a Semitic element 

 in the terms used to denote the simplest objects, and to which every 

 race must have applied names from the time when phonetic sounds 

 were employed to denote either some quality or the essence of an 

 object. 



The following table will help to show this relationship by a few 

 examples : 



EoYPTiAN. Hebrew. Assyrian. Sanskrit. Lat. English. 



ma water mayim me 



ab a priest ab a father abu 



mut mother em ummu a father matri mater mother 



mut to die muth mutu marl morior murder 



Egyptian. Hebrew. Assyrian. Sanskrit. Greek. Lat. 



Bet a place Baith a house Bitu Bhu to be FoiKog 



Neb a Lord Nabi a prophet Nabu Naripa a prince 



Ar to be, to do El a god ilu Isvara a god, one ille 



who possesses 



Thus far, I think, I have proved the truth that the Hieroglyphic- 

 lant^uage is Semitic, to a considerable extent, both in its essence and 

 grammatical structure, which so far gives evidence in support of the- 

 race unity between the Egyptians, the Semitics, and also the 

 Assyrians and Babylonians. Besides, I thuik, we have seen here 

 and there in the features of some of the Aryan languages sufficient 

 resemblance to the ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic to warrant us in 

 the opinion that if she be not their old mother, she is, at least, a 

 very ancient relative, whose form, to some extent, as a hereditary 

 inheritance, they retain even to this day. Thus the ancient Egyptians 

 were related in race and language with the warriors of the Euphrates, 

 valley, and the Semites of Syria, Palestine and Arabia, and also with 

 the Greeks, Latins, Teutons, who, in later days, made their power in 

 arms, in literature and art, felt among the nations that have risen 

 since. 



The Egyptians employed three distinctive species of writing,. 

 Hieroglyphic, Hieratic and Demotic. The first was used on massive 



