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languages belong to one great class; a class, however, which falls into 
sulxlirUioDS. 
From Ca^ Mesurado to Cape Palmas—ihe Grain Coast. No specimens 
in the Mithridates. Present data 
1. A Kru, glossary of INlrs. Kilham’s. 
2. A Bassa glossary of Mrs, KilJiam’s. 
S. Tliompsons MS. vocabulary of the Kniman and Fishman dialects. 
4. Under the Lead Kerrapi, and in his Ajtpendix, Jiilg mentions a vocn- 
balary of the Grcbo language, printed at Cape Palmas, 1837. I understand 
from other quarters that this U a Kru dialect. 
The Bassa and Kru are elosely-allied dialects. The Pessa language, over 
wd above tho similitude of the name, has many words in common with the 
Bassi Indeed the line of demarcation here drawn between the Mandingo 
and Kru dialects is by no means definite ; it is merely provisional. That the 
Kru languages are akin to those south of them is umlauhted. 
From Cnpc Puhnas to the liiver ^issinrsc— the Ivorp CWsL—Nothing: 
unless sotne vocabulary of which tlie geographical position is at present un¬ 
known belong to this locality. 
Gold Coast. —Politically speaking, this means the Ashantee kingdom and 
Independencies. EtlinographicalJy, it nieaiw the area of tf>e Inta, Acra, and 
Akvambulaugtiagcs. Within this area, the Acra uml Fantce languages were 
known to Adelung and Vatcr through the grammars of the Danish mission- 
wws Protten and Schdunlug ; besides which, there were also a few fragmen- 
^ Wabularies. Since then our knowledge has been increased by— 
1- The Ashantee vocabulary of Bowdich. 
2. The Ashantee glosses of Mrs. Kilham. 
3. The Ashantee glosses of the Niger vocabularies, taken from the mouths 
young native princes resident in Loudon. 
TlieFantee vocabulary of Bowdicli. 
Tk Fantee glosses of Mrs. Kilham. 
The Faiitee glosse.i of the Niger vocabulary, obtained by the Ilev. J. 
Mcham from Mr. De Graft, a native resident in London. 
(• lueBooroora vocabularj' of Bowdich. 
» ^10,11, 12. The Inta, Aowhi, .Anmniihea, Ahanta and Affootoo nu¬ 
merals of Bowdich. 
u Abocedarium in der Aschauti .Sprache. — Julg. 
UutliTies of a vocabulary. I..oiidon, 1841.— Jiilg. 
require dialects, three other languages, spoken on the Gold Coast, 
we havea short grammar, 
^ fT64 by the Danish missionary Protten, and a few other unim- 
luno ^ as well as the Inkra numerals of Bowdich. Both Ade- 
g anu Bowdich separate tli«> Acra tougue from the Inta. Nevertheless, 
admits a similarity in their grammatical form.s; whiUtBow- 
ca seems to have formed his ’ ‘ •-.j .u.. 
(Md »« otker words/oTisLwdld,"' 
publili??"^^’ both of the Fantee and Acra languages, originally 
Kist Ha t rtr miwioiiary, were edited by Ibc well-known pbilolo- 
ieft '* ’ '^* ^^‘** edition I can speak only from memon,’. The impression 
each n?r “y that the Acra arid Inta langu^^^s were allied to 
mer, and besides these, that the Akvainbu and Adampi were allied al-so. 
-ffle Ahvambu. See infra. 
