50 
Wr. E. 
Sp. E. 
Wr. Fr. 
Sp. Fr. 
.One 
Uahn 
Un 
CEn 
Ptwo 
tu 
deux 
doe. 
three 
thri 
trois 
trua. 
tfour 
fuor 
quatre katr’. 
tfive 
faiv 
cinq 
senk. 
six 
siks 
six 
sis. 
seven 
sev’n 
sept 
set. 
eight 
eit 
huit 
huit. 
Pnine 
naihn 
neuf 
noef. 
tten 
tehn 
dix 
dis. 
In the 3 numbers marked t there 
is no affinity, in those two ? the 
analogy is rather remote. 
Thus the English and French lan- 
guages compared merely by their 10 
cardinal numbers, which are a very 
fair scale in many languages, evince 
a considerable analogy of 7 in 10 
equal to 70 per cent. But if the 
numbers 2 and 9 with remote analo- 
gies are only reckoned for 1, it is 
reduced to 6 in 10 = 60 per cent. 
While by the formula of identity, it 
is still further reduced to 42 in 100 
or 42 per cent, of positive identity, 
derived from the 3 parents of both 
languages, the Celtic, Teutonic and 
Latin. 
I have been led to this enquiry and 
mode of investigation, by the wish 
of finding the affinities and origins 
of the American nations and langua- 
ges, which many superficial examin- 
ers had pronounced to be involved in 
total obscurity and impossible to 
classify, but I have not found them 
so: by my formula all evince their 
mutual analogies, whose calculable 
amount enables us to classify them. 
Having further extended this pro- 
cess to many doubtful languages of 
Africa and elsewhere, and having 
even compared 3 languages with all 
the others known, 1. English. 2. 
Taino or Haytian. 3. Samangofthe 
Asiatic Negros of Malaca; I have 
come to the surprising and unex- 
pected result, That all the langua- 
ges have a greater or lesser affinity 
with all the other languages ; which 
fact although it may have been sur- 
mised had never been proved, but 
which can now be proved mathe- 
matically. Whence flows another 
very important category or rule. 
That languages and nations are 
no longer to be classed or connected 
by insulated or limited analogies ; 
but by the numerical amount of their 
total affinities with each of all the 
other languages. 
This will be found a great step in 
the historical knowledge of man- 
kind, evolved from the; most solid 
and evident philological proofs. 
These facts were already partly an- 
nounced by me in 1824 and 1828, 
and I can now add that I have there- 
by confirmed the unity of mankind: 
since even the negro languages have 
preserved the indications of their 
common origin. 
In all the American languages I 
have found the greatest analogies 
with the Sanscrit, Caucasian, Arab, 
Mongol, Samoyed and Chinese of 
Asi$. The Copt, Berber, Jolof, 
Congo, &c. of Africa. The Celtic, 
Cantabrian, Latin and Greek of Eu- 
rope. And even the- Malay, Ta- 
gala, Japanese, Ha way, &c. of Poly- 
nesia, amounting in some instances 
to 50, 60, and 70 per cent, of ana- 
logy, or from 30 to 60 per cent, of 
identity. 
I shall conclude by giving one in- 
stance of these numerous analogies 
in the Taino of Hayti, Cuba, Jamai- 
ca in 1492 and the Guanche of the 
Canary Islands, now both extinct. 
1 he number of words to be com- 
pared was 32, and the followiug 14 
are analogous. 
English, 
God 
Devil 
Land 
Haytian. 
f Yocahuna 
-j Maocon 
(_ Guamochyna 
Tuyra 
5 Caya, Xaya 
l Acan, Cati 
Guanche. 
f Corac. 
v A ch am an. 
I Achicanac. 
Yurena. 
5 Haave. 
I Kaa. 
