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Saparua haan, Celebes patanu, Mafoor fum, Api veri; 

 Ambrym fir, New Guinea pali, Segaar fala, Onim faat, 

 Ceram adta, New Britain tigai, New Guinea (Forrest) tiak. 



5. The numeral 5 has the same article I as the numeral 2, 

 Malagasy dir^iy being for' limy, as Malay dmua for lua. 

 Thus the word lima is I, the article, and ima, 5. Compare 

 Sumatra liema, Rotuma Hum, Pelew ahn and ain, Tongan 

 neema, and Redscar Bay ima, Carolines lih, Lifu tipi (for 

 lipi), Easter Island reema and reena, Eromanga rim and 

 ring, Fenua Galaia djini. 



There is reason to think that ima originally began with 

 a guttural k sound. Thus the word in Aneiteum is nikma, 

 Tongan neema. Thus lima may be for likma. This is 

 further supported b}^ the following. 



Often in Oceanic this same word is used for " hand " as 

 well as for 5, as Aneiteum ikma (for kima), Redscar Bay 

 ima, Santo lima. Sometimes the same word is used for 

 both, but different forms of it in the same dialect — thus 

 Eromangan for "hand" has kop (An. ikma), and for 5 rim 

 (for rikma. An. nikma), so Tagala camay, " hand," Ihna 5, 

 Bisayan camot and lima, Kay an kama and lima, Api ona 

 and lima, and Lifu iine and tipi. 



§ 5. In affirming that the Oceanic numerals are Shemitic, 

 it is not meant that they are derived from the numerals of 

 the Arabic or other existing Continental dialect, but from 

 the same original source or mother-tongue. 



The Shemitic numerals with which we may legitimately 

 compare the Oceanic are in two groups : — 



1. The literary Shemitic numerals, Hebrew, Assyrian, 

 Syriac, Arabic, Sabaean (Southern Arabic, Himyscritic), 

 Ethiopic, Modern Syriac, Modern Arabic, Tigre and Amharic, 

 and the Arkiko, Harar^ and Sokotra numerals. 



All these as to the numerals constitute but one language, 

 so that with certain exceptions as to the words for 1 and 

 2, the word for the numeral in one of them represents that 

 for the same numeral in all the others. With respect to 1 

 and 2, each is represented by more than one word : thus, 

 Heb. 'aste, Assy, estin, = 1, as well as the common akhad, 

 and Ethiopic, which is followed in this by the Tigre, Amharic, 

 Arkiko, and Harar, has kelee for 2, all the other members of 

 the literary group having the word which in Hebrew is 

 shenaim, or shene. 



2, The Red Sea group of Shemitic numerals, found along 

 the western shore of the Red Sea from Cape Guardafui to 



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