BTHNOtOGY OF TUB ISOO-FACmC ISLANDS. 



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Colonel RawliiMion in fche last no. of the Jouni. of the R. Aaiatrc Societ^jf 

 litui rormbonit-ed the int^rencp that the delinitive in the «, o, form was the 



Eriraarv^imtof thei^emitic system both in 1 nnil higrher (Mjmpoimd aum- 

 eva. It fouTid in tl^ Ha!>yli>man su uf 'i, H and OtO, t:^u ot ti, aiid ru of 



4. The lijibyloiiiaii o hu.-* n Uiter form, ami imtlmhly r»^|"lucod an archaic 

 one riimihu" to that |iriyervfd sti Afi"ir;ui vat nljularit'.s, sit-nm, tu-mu &c., to 

 thf? E^yptitiii fh«i-ni ami to tlw (iam thii-ni, Jjjil). su-nia 8. 



The ilimynritit; and Afjan-MnndiD^^ian shii-k-/r« .'1 is not found in naimes 

 of althongh pr<'?*('r\'f^d in JfundingitiJi terms for H aud iu tlie Falah 10. 



Tliecnmnit Scmitiu fornn tW tha-Ia, sii-la, slijii-jo Scv. Amb.^ Heb., 

 ChaJd.; tha-th, shi-fih, Himyaro-Nilntic^ iir« j^injihir to the most pre- 

 valent African t^Tm.^ fur H aud ii. Thev Imvfi evidentlv spread from the 

 npper Nilotit: provinco over the rest of ^UVica, prubiibly replacing the 

 more ancient or northern iXilotit' form with the labial iKistfis, m moat of 

 thf^ vociabulsiriM \vhi(*li had pi-eviou?ly refinved it. Tlieir n^e probably 

 date."* from the tim<» when the Hqnid piHttix siiper*<edRd the labial in the 

 Semitic*:!. The dialect, per ha pi? a wer't Hiniyari tic one, from which tliey 

 siriread a-s a centre, uiUiit Imvf u^fd f liirf furm both in ti a.nd 5. The principal 

 iuricrtn difftiiiton of tlie t-t, t-n, t-l, t-r, 1-r forms is disfinctly refemble, 

 flrat to their jirevalence on the npuer NUe, smd then to tbe great Zimbian 

 disperscion over Koutherji AtViwtanti Nifferia, inc hiding; the Chadda province 

 auti part of Mid-Africa eonterminons with the -Viger wnd Cliudda basins. 



Thtf ♦Semitic ;j in irj archaic u form aiiijwuy to have jireviou^Iy Hpread 

 aver northern Africa. It-* preneuee in Utilla, ( Egyptian)' U^'rber, iShillalij 

 Kandin, Ftdah, tiadt^iga (m ti) and in several or ihe laniruage^ of the 

 Benej^ambian coast { S^nidointu Timani kc.) is thu-i explained. It u found 

 along the ESemito-Libyan bami from the. Ptiriian Gulf to the Athmtic- 



Sir. 



In the Spmito-Afri(?an py^trTno, ns in most otliPTs, the terms above 5 

 are repetitions or c^jmfiovmds of those of the lower aerie.'*. Bix is £>, 1, or 

 Sim pi V 1, or it in :J (dmil f; neven la a; ejght 3; nine 4; ftud ten the aeuoud 



5, or h duah f*J, o: i\ ."j; r>), 



The Sr^iuitic ii \a proliably :1 dual. Xenrly all tlie Afriejin terms are 5, 1 

 the 5 or the 1 beiufr sometime* elided. Home of the Eastern and rionthera 

 Slimbian terms ure :i ( dual ) ; the others are .j, 1, or, by contrttution, 5, or L 



A. (// ) rt-on, s-ov, s-oo (in HO se) K«j:yptian. Thisi.'* the s^ibilant defini- 

 tive and vmiT, witiv a remuaiit of the labial poatJLx it hj^ m 3 imd 8, and 

 jji-obably hiwl in 0, See C. 



B. fu-t, si-tt, m-iei/ein., si-tA-ta tmse. Ariibie, Blii-sh-*A«/( ma^c,, «lie- 

 bIi fern., Heb,, rthi-tta mase. she-t fern. Chaldtje, tfiu-dn, (su-.hu (iO) llatiyio* 

 man ; rtlin-t-(V/ ihmt, hii't-id ifahntb, se-d-ut Amh., se-d^ishte Tig-re, ae- 

 d-w BeHuT, :ihi-thi. .s}ii-iUla Hfin.-^a, su-tli J^liillah, xn-du Kalahi, [ = tau-da 

 Brtb.], i'.-dti j^odf , Sii^ita Em>rhedesi, me-tta Snaheli. 



The unit oi'cnr!* here in Jt«H double or fem. fornij in the Hirayaritin nnd 

 several African temiw for '4 and JiO. It is probably therefore to lie l onsidered 

 tiitl as a (piinary tenn, but a.-* the .-(econd ;i {:i dual). The Gou»«a 0 ifhi-r-*rt, 

 slu-ri-?« ajJitears to preserve the liquid element of mixst of the Semitic forms 

 of :i (^«-l«-^jf<; Tiw-re, sa-k-//w Ar. &c.) The Darfur sitta smi-dik apfiear.s t& 

 hi a dgnhle term; sitta is the Andiic ti; hmi-dik is the Gallo- Zimbian 5 

 fuOowed by the Darfur 1. 



Xhe Bu%iouiau tiiu-du, K^Jahi su-du, w a link between the dento^aibi-* 



