TRE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE. 39 



superfluous to go on with tlie translation 

 of our diagrams into words.* 



It would of course be easy to draw up a 

 similar tree of any other family of speech 

 of which the point of mutual kinship is 

 sufficiently established. 



In such languages and dialects as are 

 closely related, we see an indication of 

 recent separation from the common stock ; 

 the more any languages of the same family 

 vary in character, the earlier we suppose 

 was their migration from the native hearth, 

 since we place the variety to the account of 

 a longer individual development. 



Now it is possible that you, my worthy 

 coUeaorue, and such naturalists as have 

 not devoted themselves to the study of 

 human speech, may feel inclined to ask 



* For further details I refer to my " Deutsche Sprache," 

 S. 71, &c.— A. . 



