ON ETHNOGRAPHICAL PHILOLOGY. 
175 
A few pages back, in speaking of the country between Cape Palmas and 
the River Assinese, and again in respect to the Warree country, it was stated 
that, in the way of philological materials, we had “nothing; unless some 
vocabulary of which the geographical position is at present unknown belone 
tothislocalitj-.” « r i . b 
This sentence is a practical commentary uj)on the fact that a great pro¬ 
portion of the African glossaries come to our hands without any notice of 
the loca% which supplies them. This nuts the philologist upon the duty 
of drtemiinuig the position of a language from either his own previous know¬ 
ledge or from internal evidence. Neither process is without complications. 
N'umerous as are the dialects already indioatetl, tbe list is not exhausted. 
Only those have been mentioned which could be accompanied with the ad¬ 
ditional notice of either their geographical or their cthnologjc:al relations; 
and that with some precision. There still stand over «‘veral other dialecte, 
represented by different names. Tins makes it necessary to go again over 
die ground from Cape Mesurado to Cape Gonsalvo Lopez, and to notify those 
vocabularies, which, whether found in the Mitliridatcs, or published since, 
are neccssa^ for completing the materials for the philology of the great Ibo- 
Ashaniee division. 
That they all belong to this class is nearly certain. They have all jniscel- 
laneousaffiuiticswith the other languages belonging to it; and difficult;w they 
place under particular subdiviBions, none present the phteuomenon 
Crfew.—Allied to each other, as shown in the 
riithridates; and having the following miscellaneous Ibo-Ashantee affi¬ 
nities:— 
man. 
Kanga neheyv, 
Tapua haji. 
English moon. 
tyo. 
. tsho.' 
tsho.' 
%/is4 child. 
omannayu. 
mmna.' 
man. 
English mother. 
ni, 
English woman. 
yuno. 
&c. niono. 
English father. 
mi. 
mi. 
fVwA head. 
7iandevH. 
du/fo. 
^•■^ani dakim. 
Eiiglish 
sun. 
Kanga 
yiro. 
Bassa 
iuro. 
Kru 
ffuiro. 
English 
feet. 
Kanga 
naniboo. 
Bassa 
bo. 
English 
one. 
Kanga 
aniandu. 
Kru 
du. 
Bassa 
do- 
Efiglish 
two. 
Kanga 
aniassen. 
Kru 
sa. 
Bassa 
so. 
English 
three. 
Kanga 
anieta. 
Kru 
ta. 
Bassa 
toll. 
English 
sun. 
Gien 
yinaa. 
Moko 
ania. 
English 
head. 
Mangrce 
tri. 
Bassa 
dru. 
Appa 
itiuri. 
Ashantee 
otri. 
