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plantation of a language may put a stop to the continuous flow of its de?eloth 
ment, and preserve the ancient form of speech more fully than in themotlw 
countrj'. ilut all the cases which we can quote of this description, areUka 
from the same family of Ianguaga«*, one which, in its most ancient form, pn- 
sej^«. itself in a state of complete development, as compared with other*. 
Besides, all those secondary formations were the work of rising naiicos. 
In those processes a considerable decomposition of the old element Deces.'wi* 
preceded the new formation; but there was also a new impulse, a groviat 
r ’ " different effect must of course be produced upon the lauenw 
of a colony, if the emigrant or expelled population sinks from a rrlatii.i; 
superjor and growing iutellectual and physical station to a lower. ’fh€«* 
society may then gradually fall into a very jliffurent state of existence, tsiief 
through the inclemency of the climate, extreme cold or extreme heat, orfw 
0 er, perhaps concomitant, unfavourable circuowtanctv, such as the jwese- 
cutiou and onniity of more powerful tribes. Now cverv lastiim contracf^- 
11 , ^ twellth and thirteenth centnnt^ out of their !»•’ 
and, and pressed more and more towartls the polar regions, lave a lanpw’p 
much imjwvoriHhed and dworganized, as compared with their Finnic brtltll^- 
in rmlaiuL 'Ihere seems to have been no positive secondary fonusw* 
among the Tvaplnnders: they have lost many forms and words; hut on d' 
o ler side, they have also preserved with colonial tenacity, and as it 
^'**®*y> ninny ancient forms (such a* the dual of the jironouns) 
Which has been lost by the I-iiilandcrs. Swedish words have been introduce 
1 f .V r because the native expressions bad become otw 
e e, or the Finns express the same ideas by native words. When « 
consider what would have become of the Laplanders, if Christianity W 
1 ^ translation of the Bible had not fixed 
Flint t*k'*^** We shall not be very much surprised by the 
^^fi'*aded Bushmen (whom Linmeus identified widi* 
9 bunted by Hottentots and Kafres, can be traced tflta 
9 H»cr,.«!Lj ‘bat tfxe Hottentot language itself» o®*! 
tlip V r * noble language of Sechudna and other braaclie* 
WV I'f t" r* of the Hottentots. . . 
V- ^‘''**”^“'’*^* **'^* P^®*’omena of rising and sinkii^l*®' 
we must acknowledge the possibilitr of a new ibrm»cfi»> 
lomiient emigration. A language in a state of incipient 
laneu iiT.’< by that gre,at cause of the formation of narioc? 
niav shmit JFT •**1’’'* ‘''"’S'^tion into a totally new stage of 
almost fniir.,! ^ luxuriant new formation, which in process of tinx •*- 
cientmioj <>verpow tJie primary one, and destroy all vestiges of the 
and of H.«* complete knowledge of the newHft"*^. 
theanei«>it# ♦* i.'^ ^F*^**” ‘luvelopmeni, to discover the primitive i^uou ^ 
by the evidon ^ e ® nicthod may be found to supply ihis*^ 
Z in ordv ^^tructuro. But in our present sSge of imp®? 
of such forimr* ** P®®=*lBility, not define the condition and nsM 
The , niethotl of analysis which they require. . 
portant rmmt language however brings us some steps nearer to tlnv 
for its luntTi./ .‘l^yP‘ a eolony from the undivided Asiatic *»»*• 
yot adini 'f ” <levi'Iopcd than the Semitic and Sanscrinc. »» 
finddevolonofl 1' ^ inflexions and radical formations, which ♦* 
■As both the one, sometimes in the other of those great fauuli^ 
ic tongues in their individualized form are much more®*! 
