STUNOLUtif iff TQB INDO-FACIFIC l»I»ANDS. 



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the Zimbian forniB, tati, tat, «ta, tta, eta, eto, ta, m, elmf nta, haUf metaj 

 ffuiSL, kotatMj kita.tf', ^'wtet, dsittLdn, Mai-o, pilahj kv. kc, 



I'Weiyti AJjhiHkk 



A. Tlie Egyptiftn term u CautsBiau (see Semitic), and its diantae 

 not anly m the semidc but in tlie African 3,— ulthoug-Ii jtriiderved in the 

 Seaadt<>^i%yptiiin 8 { 5, 3 ), — etjmiliy remark jibk^ with the almost uiii- 

 vereal prwVatent'-e of B. in the Jsemitic and Atricau iaag'uug'es. 



B. The afliuities of this double unit are indicated in t>ie Semitic list. It 

 had only one representative in Cuuca^iian ; but it is Indu- European in the t-r 

 form, (which, ijj the Scythic k-r, k-1), and riuytMc in the t-t, tr-k^ s-t, a-a, • 

 k-r, k-1, h-r, ^-r ^^Jtmi. lu w'idy prcvdlfiiee iu slie t^. \\\ jwrtion of the 

 Old World, (Indo-European, Semitic, AiVicau), and theTircumstanw of ita 

 havirJ!^ apparently sapplanteil tlic older ChuiO-Siythic term pren^ri'^ed in 

 Caucaaiiiu iind E^ypliun, reuder it proliable that it early becnme appro- 

 priated tu ;f in the nuojersil d.yi!.t*?iu nf an inEuentiid and dilfuaive South 

 Wwjf-ern race, in 1 tkt: same duuble fyrjji occurcs in Oaucaaian »yst*;maj 



ho-a &ic. In Semitic it may have been fern., and dlio-ia moiiC- 



Ohs, on. tJte Dutf ibutim -of the ttr/ns. 



Following the aiuiiogy of the glo5<?ary g-enenilly, and on histori- 

 cal pixihitbilitiea, it may be i-ojidiad»'d l)iitt the tenm s'lniiJar tu the 

 Arabic, such as the Bt^b^r, tue tlie Meat Aiiiatic i/hporfutiuii."*, — 

 tliat tuose aimdar to the Hiinyaritic, mvh a^s the -Vilo-.Ni^'-criim Hha-k 

 ice. and the Aniharic utid Nubian ijo-tj;, tv^ &c,, bflony: to the Him- 

 varidc em, — and that the prevaltmt «nd widely dittu(j<;S ta-tu, ta-m 

 fcc. belong- to more ai'chuic aijvji, likt? the commoii African t^'iTiiri for 3. 

 They urti prubitbSy of coinmun ori;jiin with ^^emific, rather thim of Semitic 

 origin. Ihe Eg'3'ptiau it aj>[it iii>i tiMlntw tluit when it \vm iXM;eived trt»m 

 ft iiemitic l<m«fua;xe, thf Si-mitif fiunily hiol ii grrpater variety of terms for 

 J. than it has had in later times*. * Iji Ziioliiaii the tbruu* ta-tu and ta-m 

 appear to liave oo'iixiitedj and they probably did so in the earHer !:Jemitic 

 Ages abio, 



Thf wide di-sst^minatiod of Hit.i ionuf'. twlvi, taru^ raru fee. was probably 

 eff«ct«d by the ^leiit Zimijiaii movement. 



That oi" the eieveml t'orinA iudi.-iiN^H important m4*vementa of Ni* 



lotic tribed to the wetttwjmi, .-iuWcjitently to rhe Ilimyaritio era. The Am- 

 haric furmM of Himyai'itie have [mm 'carried to tJic Nubian tribcw, and 

 thence to oae at least of the Xi^^erian tril^e^v. Tlic Afftui form* — corr^ 

 jx^iniluio^ probably with the original fidl forms of tiouj^, iShangalla and 

 Kuati — muflt have been carriea waitwurd by an iujlu'eutial or doiainant 

 ti"ibe, for thev are more niilely diffused in TSig-eria than any uther*. Tlj« 

 MiUidiuffO tnU'J are pmbubly the modem reprejjeiitativeii o/'lSiis great Ni- 

 lotic movement. The Fuluh movometit appeura to have been a jat€iT one, 

 and the term fur '.i concurs w iih ottier f:lo r.irial facts in indicating' t.h4t 

 the inliuent-e of the Gaiia mifirratiom* aiid couipiei*ts extjeuded at one tinie 

 into Sadaiua, and was thence truuismitted to xXigeria. 



• 111 the pre-ldstorie eru of the formation it i^ probable tliat Semitic 

 had more ilialtH.-tw than in after np^. The more brtrf>!irous the tribes, the 

 gTf^ter their riifjy^Te^itiun flud tlie more mimerous their dialecta ; ami the" 

 ca|tacity of the ftunily ^^losaary for variatiorii} in the fornix of rooLd and 



