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as in Sanscrit ; while God is called Vinay Hu- 

 ayna, the eternally young*. 



The arrangement of words in the Chayma is 

 such as is found in every language of both conti- 

 nents, which has preserved a certain air of youth. 

 The object is placed before the verb, the verb 

 before the personal pronoun. The object, on 

 which the attention should be principally fixed, 

 precedes all the modifications of that object. 

 The American would say ; liberty complete love 

 we ; instead of, we love complete liberty ; Thee 

 with happy am I ; instead of, I am happy with 

 thee. There is something direct, firm, demon- 

 strative, in these turns, the simplicity of which 

 is augmented by the absence of the article. 

 Ought we to admit, that with an advanced 

 civilization these nations, left to themselves, 

 would have changed by degrees the arrange- 

 ment of their phrases ? we are led to adopt this 

 idea, when we recollect the changes, which the 

 syntax of the Romans has undergone in the pre^ 

 cise, clear, but somewhat timid languages of 

 Latin Europe. 



The Chayma, like the Tamanack, and the 



love, many a ; great, vipulo ; ( Vater, Mithridates., T. iii, p. 338) . 

 These are the only examples of analogy of sound, that have 

 yet been noticed. The grammatical character of the two 

 nations is totally different. 



* Vinay, always, or eternal ; huayna, in the flower of 

 age. 



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