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and, totally unlike its limitrophe the Galla, it 

 grammatically ignores the Semitic element. It 

 is now time for writers to unlearn that, ' all the 

 languages over the face of the earth, however 

 remotely different and however widely spread, 

 appear to be all reducible to the one or the other 

 of three radically distinct tongues ' (Dr Beke, p. 

 352, Appendix to Jacob's Might. London, Long- 

 mans, 1865). 1 It is only, I believe, the mono- 

 genist pure and simple who in these days would 

 assert ' there exist three linguistic types, as there 

 are three physical types, the black, the yellow, 

 and the white ' (M. de Quatrefages, p. 31, Anthro- 

 pological Review, No. xxviii.). To the old and 

 obsolete triad of Turanian, Semitic, and Aryan, or 

 Turanian, Semitic, and Iranian, we must now 

 add at least another pair — without noticing the 

 Asianesian — namely, the American or Sentence 

 language, and the prefixitive South African family. 



1 This is repeated by my friend (p. 59, The Idol in Horeb : 

 Evidence that the golden image at Mount Sinai was a cone, 

 and not a calf. London : Tinsleys, 1871), who, however, 

 informs us that in 1846 Major, now Sir Henry, Eawlinson 

 agreed with him in saying that, 1 the class of languages to 

 which the designation Semitic or Semitish is properly applicable 

 is that comprising the whole of the aboriginal languages of 

 Asia, Polynesia, and America.' This latter continent, however, 

 should not have been included without proofs, and hitherto we 

 have failed to find them. 



