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English 
sheep. 
English 
oil 
Ediyah 
enchoddu. 
Ediyah 
hiia. 
Ako 
agufa. 
Akuonga 
baut. 
Uhobo 
ogugedi. 
The Nuji Language .—Spoken inland to the back of the Ibo country, ui 
conterminous with the Ibo, Yarriba, Ilowssa (?) and Fulali (?) languages. 
1. The Nufee vocabulary of Clapperton. 
2. The Nut'ce vocabulary of the Niger vocabularies. 
3. The Tapua vocabulary of Mrs. Kilhani. Correctly conjectured by Ar 
editor of the Ntger vocabularies to be Nufi. 
The Langwtges of ih: Guhoo7i .—The fullest vocabulary for tlie?e parts is 
a short glossary taken by M. Pacifique Henri Delaporte, on board the J/li* 
louhie corvette, from tbe mouth of Oino, nephew to the King of Gabiuii- 
This is— 
1. Vocabitlnire de la Languc Ponga. See Maiioires de la SocieU Eth^ 
logique, tome ii. 
2. Bowdich, Empoongwa Numerals. Identical with the Pougo of Dda- 
porte. 
3. 4', 5, 6. The Shcckan, Kaylee, Oongoomo, and Oongabai numerals of 
Bowdich. Allied to each other and to the Empoongwa. 
7. The Rungo vocabulary of Mrs. Kiliiam. 
8. The Bongo vocabulary of Mrs. Kilhani. 
English. 
Bongo. 
Kaylec. 
one 
uotu 
woto. 
two 
baba 
ibba. 
three 
balnli 
battach. 
four 
banai 
bionay. 
five 
batan 
bittan. 
9. The following is an extract from Htc Progress of Ethnology^ by J- 
Russell Bartlett, ('orresponding Secretary of tlie Amjjrican Ethnologicsl 
Society.^ New York, 1817. It t» preceded by the statement that the Ame¬ 
rican missionaries on the Oaboon River have framed a granmiar of 
Poongwee language, i. c. the language of those parts. *• It is one of the 
perfect languages of Avhich they have any knowledge. It is not so remark¬ 
able for copiousness of words tu for its great am! almost unlimited flexibilk)- 
Its expansions, contractions and inflections, though exceedingly niimeroa«. 
and having, apparently, special reference to euphony, are all governed Jf 
grammatical rules, which seem to be well-established in the minds of 
people, and whieh enable them to express their ideas with the utmost pte 
eision. How a language so soft, so plaintive, so pleasant to the ear, and tf 
the same time so copious and methodical in its inflections, .should have on?* 
nated, or how the people are enabled to retain its muUiforious principles-'*' 
distinctly in their minds as to e.xpiess thenwlves with almost unvarj-ing 
cision and uniformity, are points which we do not pretend to settle, 
spoken coastwise nearly two hundred miles, and perhaps with some dialectic 
differences, it reaches the Congo River. How far it extends into tlie inleriot 
13 not satisfactorily known." 
The evidence of two words out of eleven, in the Mithridates, from C»p« 
jTonsalvo Lopez, or Cape Lopez, is in favour of the dialects of that district 
belonging to the languages of the present class. 
EiitfUsh. C.-Ipc Lopez. Ibo-Aahantee. 
Nutria ngoni, Ibu. 
pallk mpohf Rungo. 
