ON ETHNOGRAPHICAL PHILOLOGY. 
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Gobi Rafal. 
Ng§nda Srymredangfnau intau 
fSdan kianga kltomen. 
Fdt?njenaD ngu ng4nda nlngboblK. 
“keodiwie. ngi yfintfuiulnengki, k?- 
mlh yabdbiHe; ng6ndaki oreuring- 
daoau rdodauen l^tu Idtuam k!‘nda* 
Dadeo." 
Fafmenan Dguaiien ngkferfdjck 
njD«am m6dek, bardangam uk'.nden, 
lomt; yafetbobtii ngendanen kaimfk 
sam'Dsreain kfraded'nan,—Fat"me* 
nanning oreauen dabadfng^n hlli&ara 
Wfk; umfinrinngfiiane bautnnieiiam 
i'mdMfo, gumanam koinauk, 6lid* 
gam kfngolfogak, dedgibeko. 
Godi Rafal (literal translation). 
They four these of (of these four) 
not one upon the tree knew not to 
mount. 
Fatfrnc she them flattered; “sis¬ 
ters, I mount up the dates I shake 
down ; you tny basket into and into 
yours in equal jmrts gather (them).” 
Fatrme she upper garment her 
pulled off, the under garment tied 
(and) mounted; the fruits (she) 
shaked ; they gathered (and) their 
Tesscls filled up;—Fattme’s herbasket 
(into) from below unripe (dates) they 
laid; when it was (nearly) full with 
ripe (they) filled it up, quickly took 
(theirs) up (their heads) into the 
would went round, towards the lake. 
The structure of the African languages exhibits as little in the way of 
intellectual development as does the Afrie.an literature. Regularity and 
mulUfariousness in grammatical structure have been put at their proper 
^alue, since the so-called poly-synthetic character of languagi*s, like the 
wkimo and American, lias been investigated. It may be stated generally 
that the African languages are in the second stage of development. None 
we monosyllabic, in the degree that Chinese is monosyllabic; and none are 
inflectional in the degree that Greek and Latin are inflectional. 
Do the philological and the physiological tests agree ? in other words, do 
the arrangements according to physical conformation, and the arrangements 
^cording to language coincide? Pretty closely. Whatever may be the 
iftetence drawn from the fact, it is undoubtedly true that, in those tribes 
where differences of figure and complexion have been most noted, a differ- 
of language has also been recognized. The Cojilj^, Rerbers, and Caf- 
tresaud Hottentots verify this. In Abyssinia the coineidence is somewhat 
In Abyssinia, however, much baa yet to be done in philology. More- 
om.particulai- tribes have shades of colour. Some of the Tuaricks are thick- 
ipM aucl woolly-haired; the Nufis are fairer than their neighbours; the 
Wifes of Congo are more truly negro than those of Caffraria; the light or 
^ wmplexion of the Fulalw has long been uoticeil. In all this there are 
W^erenccs of any remarkable importance. 
The sirongtfst instance of thu loss of a language and the permanence of 
people who spoke it, presented by the Afrirmn continent, is that of the 
t^pts; and this is a strung case anywhere. That the African, however, parts 
*ith Ills language more easily than another has yet tn he proved. Tlie phse- 
Domena ol the American slaves, and of St. Dotniiigo, from the peculiarity of 
the circumstances, prove nothing. 
The higher question as to the value of the physical peculiarities of the 
Aincan race, is a ooint to be considered in the invc.stigation of the affinities of 
out of AJrica ; a question for the ethnographical philology of Asia. 
, now remains is the important consideration of the relations between 
the higher groups, l^climinarj- to this it is necessary to guard against an 
over-valuation of certain poiata of grammar presented to us by more than 
one of the languages enumerated above. These are— 
