BTBirOI.oa¥ OF THE INDO-PACIFIC ISLANDS. 

 £^ J. B. LOOAN : 

 LANOUAOE. 



PABT ir. 



THB BACBS A"NT> LAKGTJAOEB OP 9. E. ASIA COXTSIDEBED IIT 



eeIjATioh' to those or the nTDo-rAciTic islands, 

 ciiAPTBii V, (Continti^dJ, 



E»Qt7XKlB« IHTO THE ETHNIC HISTORY ASD KBLilTtONS OF THE DAAVt- 

 RIAN PORMATIOW,— EMBRACIBTO KOTICEH OP THE PINO- 



CAUCASIAN, IKDO-BUROPKAH, BBMITICO-APRrcAN, 

 /0 EUgEARIAI? AND AMERICAN LANGUAfiBS. • 



See* 11. GLOBSARIAI, INHICATIOKS OF TRB ETHNIC HISTORY AND 

 RELATIONS OP THE DRATTRIAN LANGUAGES. + 



1, Phokotjks and Geneeic Pabticles. 

 A comparison of roots, unless it eraljiracea a wide field and is 

 made with cictreme caution, caDnot lead to solid and satisfactory 

 results. That great Iraniap philologist Bopp has said that the 

 chance is lesa than one in a million for the same combination of 



• In the prewTit Btflte of glos3obgy, every comparison of words for ethnic pur- 

 poses mu0t he excf;&Mnf(ly imperfect. Thi^ moat dizttJuguIfiheJ phitoiogists uave 

 not been able to avoid blundere when they have eaJarged the circle of ticdr com- 



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