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contact uith Asia. At such points, over and above the question as to the re¬ 
lationship of the African languages with each other, tliere is the additional 
one of their Asiatic affinities. Hence it is most convcjiieot to begin with a 
language andonbtedly negro, and spoken in the district where the Arabic of 
the northern coast leaves off. This is the coast of the Atlantic and the north¬ 
ern bank of the Senegal. 
Previously, however, the following forins of quotation should be explained, 
as they are likely to be of frequent occurrence:— 
1. Mrs. Kilhaji)'.<< Voeafmlaria. —A short vocabulary for thirty-one lan¬ 
guages, was collected by Mrs. Hauoah Kilhain, at Sierra Leone, and published 
in a Ubular form. The original work is scarce; but it is reprinterl, with some 
additions, in the publication next named. 
2. The Niger VocahuUiries. —Outline of a vocabulary of a few of the prin¬ 
cipal languages of Western and Centra! Africa; compiled for the use of the 
Niger Expedition. London, IS-H.—Mr. Edwin Norriss, of the Asiatic So- 
«ety,was the superintendent of thb careful and well-at ranged work. 
3. Tke Senegal J'bcain/rtrrcs.—Published in tlie Mimoire* de la Societi 
Bhriologique (vol. ii.). Collected during the last century. Transferred 
from a coDvent, suppressed during the first French revolution, to the Bibli- 
othlque Royal. Headed, Dictionn4iire des Langues Frangaiscs et Nrgres dotU 
<MHsert dans la Concession de la Compa/pde Hogal du Sinigal, savoir: 
Gmoiof, Foule, Mandingue, SoracoU, Sirnire, JJagnon, Floupe, PapeL, J3i- 
^gf>U,Nahng, et Sapi. Of these, the seven first Iiavo been printed, the four 
last are missing. 
Fotrdich'sNumerals. —As an appendix toBowdic/ts Jfis.sion loAshariiee, 
yo find the numerals of thirty-one languages and dialects for the parts on and 
ID the neighbourhood of the Gold-coast. 
5. <ha//.—The Abyssiiiiaii and other vocabularies in Salt’s Voyage to AbyS‘ 
i>jm. London, 1814. 
6. i?u^y;£//,__The Kordofan and other vocabularies from Ruppell’s Reisen 
JA Nvlnen, 
1. Vocabularies for thirteen Abyssinian languages, published in the 
Jounial oftbe Philological Society. No. 33. 
^ ^^leson Northern Africa, tJie Sahara and Soudan. By B. Ilodg- 
*'>o- New York, 
!• 77«f Wnloff Language. —From the Atlantic Ocean to Podor, along the 
southern bank of the Senegambia, from west to cast, and from the mouth of 
, f to Cape Verde, the language is the Jaloff, Woloff, Guilotf or Ouo- 
language. lu the neighbourhood of Cape Verde it is interrupted by a 
Dgwge called the Serercs, but only interrupted. It is outitlnucd southward 
I It becomes conterminous with the Mandingo languages of tlic Gambia. 
WiJ ®Dlum, on this last river, is especially stated to belong to the 
! If'ngdom. So also are the states of Walo, Kaol, Syn, and Kayor; this 
"toountry being north of the Senegal. South of the Gambia I have not 
raet With evidence to the existence of any Woloff dialect. The inland ex- 
wsion ^the Wolofi’ is Romewhat indeterminate. The country marked in the 
“ajwasFoota-torrD is not Woloff. but I’ulah; oeillier is the couutry of Galam 
wholly Woloff; the Serawoolli being spoken in those parts, 
^iniiogmphically, the limits of the Woloff language are satisfactorily ascer- 
i nortlt it is coDtcrniiuous with the Moorish, Arabic and the 
of the Berber of the Sahara; on the south and south-east 
au various Mandingo dialects; on the north-cast with ilia Fulab ofFoota- 
lh, 2 ‘‘"1. Serawoolli of Galam or Kaiaaga. It probably surrounds and 
‘^‘>‘ates the Sereres of Cape Verde. 
