APPENDIX. 



(See the Note, page 16.) 



TiUEING- so long a period, extending over 

 thousands of 3^ears, the primitive relations 

 might easily be shifted and disturbed, for 

 languages are not as plants tied to their 

 respective habitats; their bearers are 

 nations capable of any change of seat 

 and even of vernacular. Since we see in 

 a less distant period, nay, up to the 

 present day, how languages disappear and 

 how the boundaries of speech are shifted, 

 nothing is more natural than to suppose 

 that many more languages disappeared, 

 and that the shifting of the primitive 



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