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Atlantic on both sides of the Orange River. The Dammara of Walvisch 
Bayisbysorae considered a Hottentot, by some a Caffre tongue. 
Compared with the scantiness of our information concerning other parts 
of Africa, the knowledge of the Hottentot class of languages, at the date of 
the Mithridates, was considerable; what was known being known chiefly 
through the Dutch missionaries and (he early travellers. 
The glossaries in the Mithridates are — 
1. For the Corana dialect.—A short vocabulary of Lichtenstein. 
2. For the Saldanha Bay dialect.—A short vocabulary fronr Hervas. 
5. For the Saab or Bushman dialect,—A short vocabulary of Lichten- 
stein. Although the prominent points of difference between the Bushman 
and the other Hottentot dialects were known to Adclung, its real Hottentot 
character was decidedly insisted on. 
■k For the Hottentot language in general. —Short vocabularies by Spar- 
raan, Thunbetg, Ten Rhyne, Witsen, Kolbe, Barrow. 
5. A Pater-noster from Witsen. 
6. A Catechism by VuJi der Kemp. 
7. A Pater*no6ter in the Corana, from Campbell's Travels in South Africa, 
London, 1815. 
8. The four Gospels in the Namacqua dialect, by the Rev. Mr. SclirneJen 
of the London Missionary Society. Printed by the Bible Society.—Boyce’s 
Caffre (iramtnar, Introduction. 
9. Of the Hottentot we find a few words in Plerbert’s Travels, a.d. 1677. 
They are called Souldanian ; and were probably taken at Saldanha Bay. 
English. 
Souldanian. 
Hottentot. 
one 
itswee 
qua. 
two 
istum 
kam. 
three 
istgwunny 
gona. 
four 
hacky 
liakka. 
fire 
croe 
kurruh. 
hat 
twubba 
kabnab. 
nose 
tweam 
quoi. 
water 
chtammey 
tkaniman. 
woman 
traqueosh 
quaischa. 
The Hottentot is one of those African languages which has been separated 
from the rest by a, real or supposed, broad linn of demarcation. 
XIV. The Sfvhmi Class (f f^anguages. — The Nile from the cataracts to- 
''^rds its source, is the best guide for tlie languages of Nubia and Abyssinia. 
1- Injmedialely south of Assuan is the country called K1 Kenuz. Of the 
Acfe Sj^token we have u vocabulary in Burckhardt’a Travels in Nubia. 
The Kensy is the north Nubian dialect. It is also a Barabbra, or Bcrbe- 
P®® dialect The Kenuz of Nubia U conterminous with the Arabic of 
the north, and with the Bisharye dialects on the east. 
2. The Wady Nuba lies immediately to the south of Kenuz. Of the dialect 
wc have also a vocabulary in Burckhardt. 
*• The Dongolah of Cailliaud.— Voyage a. Meroe, &c. Paris, 1826. 
n* n Rouiaim of Eiisebc de Salle.— Journal Asiatupie, 1840, vol. x. 
1 he lioKtanay as the name of a language, is probably the same as the word 
Lyon—The Arabic name for wltat is considered & patois. 
e Eusebe de SsWe.— Mid. 
^ Nubian of Costaz— iJ/d. 
7. Minutoli, J. H. H.—i^e^se zum Tempel des Jupiter Ammon und nach 
Berlin, 1827. 
