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The exploration of the affinity between the lan^ages of these nations lad 
the proof of their connection with the idioms uf the Ugrian tribes befon 
mentioned, has been the work of several successive writers, who have advaocri 
by degrees in the different parts of this research. Among them the naiw 
of Gj’armatiu, Vater, Abel Hemusat, Ritter von Xylander, Professor Sclutt 
and, lastly, M. Ketlgrcn are the most (listinguishtd. 
The remaining gronpes, referretl to the Kiine family, are connected wilk n 
as yet by much feebler indications, and their affinities to it are rather maiw 
of conj«*oture than of certain proof. There are, however, in most insUiiia 
some arguments founded on the structure; of languages which favour lli 
opinion. 
3. The Euskarian or the Old Iberian language, spread in ancient tow 
through a great part of Sjiairi nml the south of Gaul, and, perhap*, *l» 
through Italy, has been thought to belong to this family; this was the opio'* 
of Professor Rask. It has never boon notablished by any extensive comjwr 
son. A work, however, has lately bwn written by Professor Keywre 
Christinnia, in wliich the author etideavomw tc» prove the wide extewou ’ 
the Iberian people through western tiurope in remote times, and coowt* 
them witii the Liipponic KborigitieB of Scandinavia. 
I must here observe that imuiy modern writers seem disposed tobeliP* 
that the Celtic nations, at least the original people of the British 
descendants ai'e the Welsh and Irisli, wen* in part of FinnUli or Lapp<»n 
scent, nml sprang from ii mixture of this race with a tribe of 
origin. There are phicnomerm both in languages und of other kinds » 
teud to favour tJiis conjecture; and it bus u distinguished 
Meyer, whose very .successful stiidies of the Celtic languages will enable 
to throw now light on the literature of these nations. . i f ui 
4 ami .5. Tlie languages of the Samoiedes, on the shores of tiie rW 
Ocean, have been traced in the m-igltbourhood of the Altaic Mouu * 
These, as well as several of tljo idioms of the Caucasian tribes, have 
supposcil to belong to iJie same family of languages. The prool 
afforde<i in regard to the Caucasian idioms amounts only to some 
blancea in vocabularies. 
6. Insular nations to the eastward of Asia and near the coast of the 
Ocean. 
It seems like a wild conjecture to join these nations to the races 
describc<l. .Some facts, however, may be collected, which, if' * 
degre<*. affbr<i evidence of connexion between them. 
1 he idiom of the Islands comprised in the empire of Nippon, as we 
of the independent Litikiti Archipelago, bears some signs of 
of the Ugro-Turtorian nations. I am assured by xMr. Norris, who 
the .Japauesu, and whose very extensive knowledge of languages ^ndeff 
a great authority in suclwjuestions, that the principle of voc^e 
and oUier phenomena of tho Tartar languages prevail in the tdio 
Japanese and Liukid islands. 
Wc have obtained, through the publication of Admiral Liitkes ^ 
some knowledge of the language spoken in the Kurilian Islands, r 
cularly in llu* island of Unalushka. IJy a grammatical analysi^ o ^ 
guage. coju|HHcd by a missionary of the Russian church, we 
peculinr laws of construction, first pointed out by ^ 
^ 'griau and Tartar language?, prevails in the Kunliw 
. '■ ^'1^' aboriginal inhabitants of India, who were expelled from 
the BnihmaiJs and the Arian people who accompanied the® ^ 
" Us, retired, as it is supposed on apparently sufficient proof, 
