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development, if compared with the Iranian languages, hut a degree of tlieii 
own, starting, as it were, from the opposite pole. The tongues of HighAsa 
form with those most perfect languages a decided opposition to theCk- 
initic and Semitic branches. They are more advanced than these, and tbe^ 
fore later, but, so to sav, advanced in a wrong or less imperfect way. W' 
therefore propose to ca)l tins whole family the Turanian^ and the Inilo-G* 
manic or IikIo. European, the Iranian, following the antithesis of Iran*' 
Turun, cKtablishcd by Heeren and Carl Hitter. And indeed the more wtp 
hack to the most ancient historical traditions of the Japhetic family, partin- 
larly in India ami Pcrsiii, tlic more we see how the two branches, the Inn* 
and the Turanian, though always in opposition to each other, are to bef» 
sidered as but diverging lines fron> one common centre*. 
It is not proved, hut it appears to us, on the strength of our general jra* 
ciples, highly ]jrohable, that the native language* of the northeni eortisic 
of America^ comprising tribe.s and nations of very different degrees of O'* 
satiori, from the Esquimaux of the polar regions to the Aztecs of 
are a scion of the Turanian tribe. The -similarity iu the coofonualiotiuft^ 
skull, always made such an affinity highly probable: the wonderful aml^C 
in the grammatical structure of those languages, between themselves 
the Turanian tongues of Asia, is denied by nobody; and we believe that» 
curious and, at the first appearance, starUiug problem, of the apparent eaos 
diversity t>f the lexicographio part of those American languages, hy 
of that grammatical affinity, will receive a satisfactory solution by h morep®' 
found knowledge of the roots, and by the application of our principle*^^ 
condary formation, overgrowing sometimes luxuriantly the ancient sti**''' 
roots. 
v»e JiKcwjse neiicvc tliat Wilhelm von Humboldt has establisncu t* 
nexion between the Polynesian languages and the Malay, or the langusj 
1 lalacca, .lava and Sumatra, and that this Malay language itself btiO 
c of tlie iiot-Jranian branch of the Juplieiic family. 
I langungcs, spoken in Australia and NcwGm«^ 
by tfie aborigines of Borneo, of the peninsula of Malacca and of soaie« 
i olynesmn islumls, be a r>rimitivc type of the same stock as the 
a terwards, in many parts, superseded it—this point must remain ni»c« 
1 MO receive from the hand.-* of the missionaries a Papua grammar- 
uuc 1 w«! know, that it is an anterior and reiw- primitive formation, an > 
bkoly w, I j,rove to he a dcgGner.atc.d one. to the analysis of which, 
skill have to apply the method above discussed. , ^ 
V\ e sec thus, that Asia (u-ith tf.e exception of China and Tibet). tl«* 
Sr^JiT America and the Polynesianlan.U (at least 
secondary stock), belong to one great original famUy, divided mW 
Allerthmiwknnac. p. 728. M, vo.,ngfo«d Doctor 
Dnihviit Aniiaont J. *rat;e*,that tbe fivs pnocipal tribes. die 
S 11*“’ connected bv tL lie of naUoaaiitv, 
natim.T:r;. f age. that of the epic portn- of the Alah*i|h*f’^ 
cunc" Zr « dm •">«« of Tayiii.oneof throldfMfiasof 
Sv X, h. ^‘iVvasa i.. to live without bwo 
afc^lMinirTn l. J I'arborians in tf.e Konh. In lUis name of 
nshku we ti,,,! rL Indo-Scjrhiaii kings in the history of 
hm/rfra!tijifi.Sl the Zeiitl 7’Aro, the name of the nations 
gives the Ume •“ to Ay. and thus the very 
to tlu-iu by FirduM ''®™adie etjucstriaii tribes, which 
oiaii iuscrintioiiR nf i* .''^hich makes them always appear in India, as well » ^ j-o 
