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caufe, in this tongue, ^r^^/ fignifies daquila, or taqitila, * MANNERS 

 and this is the name by which the natives of Chic 



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ftinguiflied xh^ great car dia, or cockles h-om thofe which are fmaller 



2nd more common 



The language of the Tagalas having 



doubted relation to that of the Malays, as may be eafily colleded 

 from the comparifon of the words of both languages j it can be no 

 wonder that Malayan words were found in the Taheitean language, 

 Siid its various dialeds. Thefe general obfervations on the Ian- 

 guageare fo far curious and interefting, as theyafford a farther con- 

 iirmation of the origin and migration of 'thefe iflanders. 

 But there are other obfervations, occurring on a more minute 



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confideration of the language itfelf. The frjl is that at Taheitee, 

 and the Society-iiles, the natives have no fibilant in their language ; 

 and therefore having no ufe of their organs of fpeech in forming 



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thefe founds, they become at laft utterly incapable of pronouncing 

 any fibilant found whatfoever. Their words, or even fyllables. 



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are never terminated by a confonant; for which reafon the natives, 

 in imitating the names of Europeans, always added a vowel at the 

 end of fuch names as ended in a coefonant ; and this likewife has 

 made their language foft and agreeable on account of the number 



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' P. Juan de Noceda y el P. Pedro de San Lucar. Vocabulano ic k Llr.gua Taoala.. 

 Manihi, 1754, fol. 



f Dalrymple'd Colleaion of Voyages, vol. I. p. 149. ' 



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