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REPORT — 1847. 
English 
HuDgo 
AkuoDga 
English 
Rungo 
Popo 
English 
Rungo 
Bongo 
Moko 
Beni 
Fot 
English 
Rungo 
Bornu 
Bongo 
Benin 
English 
Rungo 
Kongo 
English 
Rungo 
Moko 
English 
Rungo 
Bornu 
Ibu 
oil. 
ahadi. 
haunt. 
pepper. 
togolo. 
taki. 
pig- 
ungauoh. 
guia. 
ngo. 
ngo. 
nji. 
sheep. 
idombi. 
dimi. 
adornhi. 
teniba. 
sleep. 
leua. 
lega. 
speak. 
kamba. 
ngamu. 
star. 
ogaguni. 
guna. 
kuondi. 
English 
stone. 
Rungo 
ida. 
Akuonga 
ntei. 
Karaba 
ithu. 
English 
tree. 
Rungo 
treri. 
Uliobo 
ure. 
Mandingo 
iri. 
Susu 
uru 
Bambarra 
ziii. 
Kossa 
■nguri. 
Woloff 
garup. 
English 
water. 
Rungo 
aningo. 
Bornu 
ngi. 
Kossa 
nge. 
English 
well. 
Rungo 
armni. 
Fantee 
unuieh. 
English 
woman. 
Rungo 
oantu. 
Kongo 
kentu. 
English 
work. 
Rungo 
ianja- 
Ibu 
ono. 
Now the name given, by the present writer, to this large and complex gw^P 
has been taken from the two principal languages contained in it, theHw*® 
the Ashantec. The Ibo-Ashantee group may best be studied by taking*^ 
^ta, the Acra, the Akvambu (?), the Dahomey, the Ibo, the Kufi. 
Yarriba, and the Gaboon languages as the representatives of its lo®®^ 
divisions. 
Of all the languages of Africa this group ])Pesents tlic most coraphcati^^ 
The short and fragmentarv character of its vocabularies, the factof «>«• 
being frequently collected from West Indian slaves, and the absence of 
geographical notification of their localities, are more prominent here 
any other department of African philology. The special knowledge ot» 
professed geographer has yet to bosuperadded to the more general rescairt 
ot the ethnologist, before the materials already collected can take their pwp 
degree of order and classificaUon. The Niger vocabularies are, ia the fr- 
Ashantee class, of indispensable value. 
The order in which the languages are taken will now no longer follo»^ 
coast of the Atlantic, The affinities of the Ibo-Ashantee languages, « 
as ot all the others already enumerated, arc with the inland rather than*’ 
the southern parts of Africa; although the latter range of affiniriesen^. 
The languages of Soudauiamay best be studied l*y takragtbegrea“”“®; 
lake Icltad ns a geograpbioal centre. Of Lake Tchad three coontriw I®® 
the shore c—Kanem to the north, Begharmi to the south-east, and BorflO v 
tiie wert. Ot the language of Kaneni I know no specimens. ^ -j. 
Langnage.^Xn tlie present state of our knowlt-dgyf 
nf f must be considered as forming a class by itself, coDSiBn®6 
oi a single language. “ 
