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RESEMBLANCE 0E SOUNDS. 
PARENI TONGUE. 
MAYPURE TONGUE. 
Cacao 
Cacavua* 
Tobacco 
Jema 
Jema 
Pimento 
(Pumake) 
Mimosa inga 
(Caraba) 
Cecropia peltata 
(Jocovi) 
Agaric 
(Cajuli) 
»* 
Puziana (Pagiana) 
Papeta (Popetas) 
ft 
Siuapa (Achinafe) 
Avanume (Avanome) 
ft 
Metenba (Meuteufafa) 
Apekiva Pejiiveji) 
tt 
Puriana vacavi 
(Jaliva 
>» 
Puriana vacavi 
uschanite 
tt 
Puriassima vacavi 
(Javiji) 
This comparison seems to prove that the analogies ob* 
served in the roots of the Parent and the Maypure tongue* 
are not to be neglected ; they are, however, scarcely more 
frequent than those that have been observed between the 
Maypure of the Upper Orinoco and the language of the 
Moxos, which is spoken on the hanks of the Marmora, 
from 15° to 20° of south latitude. The Parenis have hi 
their pronunciation the English Ik, or tsa of the Arabians, 
as I clearly heard in the word Amethmni (devil, evil spirit); 
I need not again notice the origin of the word camoW- 
Solitary resemblances of sounds are as little proof of com - 
munieation between nations as the dissimilitude of a 
roots furnishes evidence against the affiliation of the 
German from the Persian and the Greek. It is remarkable, 
however, that the names of the sun and moon are sometime 9 
found to be identical in languages, the grammatical coU' 
depends. I may here mention, that the word Teo, or Teot, which h l 
Aztec signifies Hod ( Teotl , properly Teo, for tl is only a termination), 
found in the language of the Betoi of the Rio Meta. The name of 
moon, in this language so remarkable for the complication of its gram- 
matical structure, is Teo-ro. The name of tne sun is Teo-umasoi. I* 16 
particle ro designates a woman, nmatoi a man. Among the Betoi, d) e 
Maypures, and so many other nations of both toiitinents, the moon 15 
believed to be the wife of the sun. But what is this root Teo ? It app earS 
to me very doubtful, that Teo-ro should signify God-woman, for Mei ne ' 1 
is the name of the All-powerful Being in the Betoi langnage. , 
* Has this word been introduced from a communication with European*- 
It is almost identical with the Mexican (Aztec) word cacava. 
