^4 



KTHNOLOOT OF THE IN* 00 FACTPTC !6I,AN©S," 



Tlie powerful dlffiirtinn of Himynritir terms br difTprfnt BtTftflm- : 

 to show also thni ihv Nilotic trihpg rt-ceived u great impetus from tlie ci- 

 vilirirttion and eiiLn-g:;j* of the iliiu v aritft* or uu punier Slieiuo-Hamiti*' race. 

 The Gnlla, Fulah and Miindintnan trib»?3 probably denvtJ fi-oin tlitm 

 Bometliiag of their plijaiuul stiperiuj-ify t-o fhe purer ^'egro racta. 



Four. 



fi. (a.) tLT'h&'ifd Maltnih, (..ara^ ar4nv_^/f7w. ar-ha-#ff m-oso, Arabic, 

 M^hx'tt/t maM, iiT'ba /ivw> llebrt'w, ni-bu Babyloiiiun, ar-l»a 7W//«c- 

 ttr-!>ii tf'iB. Clmld*'^, ur-Ui'// Tifrrf*, ur-bn-^// ( infsit. nr-w/, ur-w* Amharic, 

 ar-at lUxYVQ'p, n-bah ArtikOj ar-um TdiuiiJi, [ra liuilom, ("-rie Yebu, per- 

 li«p^ Zimbian], 



{k) a-f-t, f-tu EgymiAit, fau-fo Tibho, ii-fu-r 8aumali, fe-re Paiikali, 

 ( l»»jb-r 8hih«, buha-rra Dimkuti H ), hau-<la, au-da, hoi^(bi, oi-ibi iTOiipi, 

 fu-du, hu-du, fo-du, <>-du Hntusi*; txi^lu Kalahi; r-tivr, r-fa-tm, /-fu-d, r- 

 fa-tu, iJ-fu-t^i &c. Malajrasiy ( fc'-fa iii iO ), The MitlufrtL-iy i'-fji-r, with 

 the ailit^d Africttii t^-nufi preweiTe the originul iull t'onn of tlie Hfmitic 

 ar ajid tliow that it waii originally "2 rep«at*Ht ("J dual ). Thf same trrm 

 ia coiumuti in Atnrtt 2, hsir, wai*, &<•., coirtrudiufr in Kutiiti utid Tumaii to 

 or. The Semitit' 4 (a) itt al.-ii>, in aJl probabibry, a 'laol of tliis form of dl, 

 with fhe archaic labiuJ postiix,— mvija from wiiT'ifa, It recui's in 7 ( 5, 

 2 ) and 8(4 tlual ). tiee thf remnrke on 2 above*, and ahu Semii ic >*UTttPr- 

 els, 2, 4, 7. The contiiicted prefisuai ^' of MoJuii^ay is found in some 

 ISij^iemii t^nas. It iti St*mjt4»-ljihyan (a, e, i,&c. ) Aod jwxur» in the 

 Ef^yplian and Sftumfth torm^ under the form a, 



li, iti.) zuivchaj «/i-7-i't.ha hiiian^Jla, adi-eoh Gongn, si-2^t, tje-tlza, siv 

 dja Apau, fu^(^\it*'Chf Mjiktja, ituutye^tjp JIudjaiia, .st,'-4ie-ii Maxamhikt, 

 61-ja KouffO, Thfcw? teniui are (umilnr *fo tjje double unit of 1, :j und ij. 

 They havt; no oppw<^nt coiijiei-tiun with any of the ^4emito-Af^je«n terms 

 for 2, and may IjMve been formed from -i liTke the Kiiffift4se-k.6'c)ie — 'se-ko€ 

 (a, 1 ), Himllar Umn^ recur in SJ ( fj, 4 ), and in the Seraitie 9, which uot 

 only reseinble9 these African t«rnui for 4 inid i), but the Semitic ^} and S. 

 All tbase attiniliej? would be expkuned by the ftemitiu 3 being- formed from 

 Ij tjjiit is having: orig-inally baen 2, 1. In both its vaiietie^ tha-k &c. and 

 thfl-th^ it i* repi-eseiiied in current terms Ibr 1. ( See the mnark^ on the 

 IBeJiiitic f) I 



• {b,) The Berber ku-z, Sbilloli Jto-e-/, ia a ritnilar t^nu, Tlif Xubitm 

 ke-m-su, ke-n-ju, ke-ni-w>/?« vmj be connected wilh it. Both rftsmible 

 teims for 6, and ix):s*.*flblj 4 may liave lieen '*! from 5," Imt it u much more 

 probable that ihej were foi-raed in the ortUnary way fi"oni t4?rms onee cur- 

 rent lii* 2* The Hann^ ke-t, ii, (a eontrjurtiuu of ko-l-et), resembka the 

 Berber ku-z«t. 



C, (//.) The Bishari w-ddi-^ ( dip- in 9 ), Bomui di-pti, de-ku, Emphede- 

 m (i-ta-kj are probablv '2 dual ( Bornui incU % I'ldah di-di &e. ); di m one 

 of the variation of rLe cMef Semito-Alrieim roctt for iJ, iia, in, ii, li, di 

 &c. In Bomui the guttural is posttixual in other noiuif* alt^o. See {c). 



{h, ) se-lle Dalla, — te-lle in tl (5, 4),— id probably from » )*imibn' term for 

 2. Li; IB the 2d elemejil in } imd :i abo. In 4 it** inmi*^diate origin ia 

 probably the Semitic % phe-ue ilebit-w,' s-en Kgyptiaii, Kallalii. 



( e.J The Ziniliuu term is the iismuI Seuiito-Ami tLn nmK lor 2, ne, ni, 

 IM, nai &t". It prevails in the IVig-erian at* well a^i liie 55i.mbiaii pro%ince, 

 Buiill&li EL^i Eikaubu t-iun, Kinika t/-iie, Tukwaiu t^t-iau, }limim.h>mj Sola- 



