Brinton.] 216 [Oct. 5, 
apart geographically and linguistically. It is the sound at the basis 
of the personal pronoun of the first person and of the words for 
man in numerous dialects in North and South America. Again, 
the K sound is almost as widely associated with the ideas of o¢her- 
ness, and is at the base of the personal pronoun of the'second per- 
son singular and of the expressions for superhuman personalities, 
the divine existences.* It is essentially demonstrative in its power. 
Again, in a long array of tongues in various parts of the world 
the subjective relation is expressed by the M sound, as has been 
pointed out by Dr. Winkler; and other examples could be added. 
Many of these it is impossible to attribute to derivation from a 
* Without carrying the comparison of the linguistic stocks beyond those most familiar 
to the ethnologist, I add the following comparisons to confirm the statements of the text: 
Dialects in British America. 
i man thou divinity 
Eskimo, wonga innuit wootik 
Athapascan, ni-yun tinné 
Cree (Algonkian), ni iyin ki okisikow 
Haidah, e-hlin tun-ka 
Bilhoola, insh 
Tshimshian, neuio 
Kawitshin, un-sa enika ni ki 
Chinook, ni ka kah-tin mi ka 
Shahaptani, ein uk wins 
Dialects in the United States. 
I man thou divinity 
Lenape (Algonkian), ni lenni ki oki 
Choctaw, unno ch- 
Muskoki, unneh 
Dakota, on, un, (pl.) wakan 
Dialects in. Mexico. 
ui man thou divinity 
Huasteca, nana inic 2:42). 42 ae ku 
Othomi, nuga nyoeh n’ge oqha 
Nahuatl, ni 
Tarasca, ni : 
Maya, in, en uini¢ ech ku 
Zapoteca, naa 
Dialects in South America. 
' 
I man thou divinity 
Qquichua, noka khani kam huaka 
Aymavya, na huaka 
Araucanian, in-che 
Abipone, aym. akami 
Carib (dialects), n k 
On the astonishingly wide distribution of the n and k sounds as primitive demonstra- 
tives, compare H. Winkler, Uralaltaische Vélker und Sprachen, s. 86, 87 (Berlin, 1884). For 
other comparisons, see Tolmie and Dawson, Vocabularies of Inds. of British Columbia, 
p. 128. 
