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The Oceanic Languages Shemitic : 



Suez in the Somauli, Galla, Danakil and Adaiel, Shiho, and 

 Bishari. 



With the question of how far these dialects, any or all of 

 them, are Shemitic we have nothing here to do. If any of 

 them is radically non-Shemitic, the numerals of them which 

 are Shemitic, and with which alone we are here concerned, 

 must have been introduced or borrowed from Shemitic 

 vulgar dialects of which they remain to this day a true 

 fragment. 



For the numerals of the Red Sea group, see the lists of 

 Salt (" Voyage to Abyssinia") and Latham ; for those of 

 Sokotra, Wellsted (" Travels to the City of the Caliphs," 

 &c.) ; for the modern Syriac, Stoddart's Grammar. 



§6 



;. The Numeral 1. 



Oceanic (see § 4, 1). 





ku, kai 



cha, Mod. Syr 





k'ow, Somauli 



kedha, kadi, keteh kat, Sokotra 





chad. Mod. Syr. 





akhadu, Assy. 





engat, Bishari 



aida, ita 



edu, Assy. 





adde, Tigre 



katim 



ahhdam, Sabaean 



satu, sada 



aste, Heb. 





istin, Assy. 



tasi 



cf. edis, „ 



nehi 



inek, Shiho 



tika 



toko, Galla 



For more, see below 



on the numeral 6. 



§7 



. The Numeral 2. 



Oceanic (see § 4, 2). 





mi, he (am)oi, {am)ooi cf. huma, Arabic 



(ah)oma (h)o, ua, i 



{dal)uva cf. hami, Sabaean 



ohwa{t) (dsil-uva, ( 



ohwa-t) 



malofo 

 morua 



malobo ) -d- i, • 

 ^^1 -. ^Bishari 

 maloob j 



(dsi)luva, lua 



lamma, Shiho 



Ihua, duwa 



lebha, Somauli 



duha 



lumma, Galla 





lummehj Danakil 



