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Sera\i'oolli 
Woloff 
TunmaDt 
Ibo 
English 
J^erawoolli 
Maadingo 
Bombarra 
Pessa 
Susa 
Vei 
Mecdi 
one. 
bane. 
hen, 
pin. 
mbon. 
two. 
fillo. 
fula. 
fula. 
fda. 
fire. 
fering. 
filla. 
fete. 
"English 
three. 
Serawoulli 
siko. 
Susu 
saka. 
Vei 
sakxm. 
Mendi 
sauwa. 
English 
five. 
Serawoolli 
toumou. 
Timinani 
touniat. 
English 
ten. 
Serawoolli 
tamou. 
Moko 
dium. 
Bongo 
dium. 
XX\1II. 77te Akrambu,—The on\y work* known to me wkere specimens 
of the .Ikvambuare to be found, Is out of reach. This fact, and an inclistinct 
wtion that its isolation lias been iusi-sted upon, are my only reasons for dis- 
ewaecung it from tJie other languages of the Gold Coast. It is conter- 
®inoQ» with the Asbantee. 
XXIX, The 7i'66ooh—T liis is the language of the Libyan Desert, bounded 
OD ths north by the Berber of Siwah and Augila, and by the Arabic; on the 
Mtiiii by the languages of Bornu, Kaneni, and Darfour; on the etL‘'t by the 
Anbic of Egypt, and tl»e Nubian of Nubia; and on the west by the I trnrick 
of lie Sahara, Adelung considered the Tibboo as Berber; so did Balbi. "1 heir 
datavereafew words fromHomeuianu; and the opinion has not been adopted. 
PnpJiard first objected to it. The present Tibboo vocabularies are,— 
h fie Tibboo of Lyon .—Travels in Nortftern Africa. 
^fhe Tibboo of Hodgson. 
niat the Tibboo, although without any specific affiintics, was by no means 
*®solated language, is shown in tho Classical Museum, No. 12. 
.‘P'^i^hly belongs to the Nubian class. 
If futore researches justify tho assumption of the lettor-change, the Tibboos 
the name as well as the locality of the aticient Libyans or Libyes. 
are our materials, and such the provisional classificatiou. Inde- 
P®pdent of the question of the affinities btdwccii tho groups, the geogra- 
distribution of them exhibits more than one point of ethnological 
"“puftaiice. 
b restriction of ancient cultivation to the tract of the Nile, and the 
‘hUons of its extension westward. 
J- Ihtt contran between the character of Asiatic influences at the two 
Ittk ^ Sea. For Esrx'pt and the parts connected M'itli Asia l>y_ m 
the pemianeiu influence of Ambia began at a late 
ii Successors of Mahomet. For Abyssinia, and tlie parts abo 
l^abclmandei, the nrmir/neni influence of Arabia ^ 
wterior to history, as manifested by the constitution of the old 
|iic language and its derivatives. 
of the Berber arca.-The simple fact ol a angnage being 
gded over so vast a range of country as tl.o whole of the Sai.ura and 
a « mit. in itsdf, very remarkable. The 
*” Europe. The Lnghsh 
^ ^'nerica covers a greater area still. This however is Irom txunsion 
pae Kysten Ginea, med et macg <m AktmnhuUk. 
