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Po/^, ^c. The Wanika anti Wakamba are conterminous with the Galla 
on toe north, and the Sohili on the east. 
. Krapf.—A short specimen in Ewald, Ueber de Vdlker, 
1}C. jneMsegua inhabit the coast opposite the island of Zanzibar. 
12. The Pocomoof Krapf; mentioned, for the first time, by the Chevalier 
iJiiDsen at the Oxford meeting. 
13. The Msambara of Krapf. MS. Tnljulaled, and 80 shown to be 
Aaflre. 
Ih The U^afi of K rapf.—A short spocimeti in Ewald, £W;er de Vdlkery 
oA Contenninous with the languages last mentioned. Ewald’s paper, which 
seenis to hare been written without a knowledge of either the Caifre gram- 
roais of Boyce and Arclibcll, or of the opinion of Prichard on the Sohili, 
pres a table of these four languages and of the Suahcll. The t'kuafi is by 
unlike of any. The others are closely allied to each other and 
to the Suaheli. The Suaheli of Krapf and the Sohili of Leigh coincide. 
15. pe Mobilian of Herbert.—Taken by Herbert in 1C77 at Mobilla, 
oneoifteComoro Islands, between Madagascar and the Continent. Although 
rerr short, Md in the words of the author a mish’mash of Arabic and Por- 
p<ese, it is shown by the following two words to be African and CafFre 
rather than Madagascar and Malay;_ 
English. Mobilian. CaiTre. 
gumbey komo, Coossa, 
mage maze, Makua. 
The language also of the island of St. Johanna is African, notMadagas« 
car—Pne/wrd. 
ptween the Caffre language and the other languages a broad line of dc- 
uiarMtion generally been drawn. 
P^c^aritit'S, indeed the so-called characteristics, of the Caffre gram- 
of—of great prominence in African philologj-. These consist 
b pe system of prefixes. 
7 ^^®®’*P^'ODicoralliterational r.nncord. 
—In the following words,—7/»«tu =persnn, 
wslamr^*^’ or chief, it«caka=.Hervant, «sana=infant, 
wottk t<bii8o=fac<‘, oAwtyassfonl, <rAflntu=pcople, i7»iffzwe= 
cino=cattlc, t«iiti=trccs, the letters printed in italics are wholly 
the Caff^ Adventitious, however, a» they arc, they occur before almost all 
Uwm. '“^‘^“^Aives, and arc, practically speaking, inseparable. Without 
appear like a Greek crude root, i. e. such a form as 
fl * fffi/iue its concomitant inflectioii. Yet the Caflre prefixes 
tver T'hcy are elements of composition. So necessary, bow- 
Prietta H ®,*^*^®*T°*^*^^*** of this adventitious element, that new words like 
4c. lake it, and become ampriest, ?<77»pljari3ee, when in- 
into the Caffre scriptures. . t ’ i 
of the Importance of these prefixes may be found in the following 
from Boyce’s Caffre Gramnmr 
j. « disUnguishcd by 
of tho n ^ uumlmred according to the number of the declension 
c * n " 
upon thlmf-y* Krummatical construction of the language depends 
V.(*•«■ prefixes). 
and adverbs are converted into nouns by the addition of prefixes. 
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