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LANGUAGE. 
ently, and receive different fignifications; thus they ad¬ 
mit of the articulations r, d, and b, unknown in the 
houan-koa, or the mandarin tongue. They ufe gue, inftead 
of ti, to indicate the genitive; goua, and not ngo, for the 
pronoun me ; and gouan for the pronoun we : this dialect 
of Fo-kien is fubdivided into five others. 
In the mountains of China, as in other places of Afia, 
there are ftiil many favage people little known ; but we 
know at leak that they have a language, or at leaffc a dia¬ 
led!, peculiar to themfelves. We may juft mention the 
Maou-lao, who extend over fix provinces; the Miao-tfe, 
who inhabit five provinces in the middle of the empire ; 
the Lo-los, in the province of the Yun-nan. And there 
are many others. On the coafts of the ifle of Hai-narn 
the Chinefe is generally fpoken ; but the favages of the 
interior have a language totally unknown elfewhere. 
Siao oul 
Parvi flic 
Lie ta ti 
Succedentium magnorum imperatorum 
kou houm 
antiquitas, aqua adveniens, 
fouen kham klii, 
fuperiora feccula, 
Adelung has given three Chinefe verfions of the Lord's 
Prayer, adding literal verfions in the German language. 
Then follows a fragment of the liiftorical book Siao-ouU 
loun , which is taught to all children deltined to the man- 
darinate, till they have attained their fifteenth year. It 
is an introduftion to the ancient hiftory of China. We 
have put the Chinefe text of this fragment in Roman cha¬ 
racters, with a literal verfion in Latin underneath, from 
Bayer’s Mufeum Sinicum. This extract from an. ele¬ 
mentary book (which is a great curiofity in itfelf) will fet 
in the clearelt light the defects and poverty of the Chinefe 
language, and how many obftacles it leaves in the way of 
ftudyand improvement in thefciences. In fhort, by this 
we may perceive, that what is prefented to us as the an¬ 
cient hiftory of China, is a wretched cofmogony, a chro¬ 
nicle much disfigured or badly invented. 
loun 
infitutio 
vain 
re sum 
Tay 
Magna 
tfchi, 
fubfedit, 
Tien 
Cali 
khe fan 
iredecim 
Ti 
Terra 
khe ye 
undecim 
Chin 
Hominum 
van 
enyriades 
Yen 
Habens 
divifit 
hoatn 
augujla 
chin 
homines ; 
hoarn 
augufa 
chin 
homines, 
Hoam 
Augufa 
lieou, 
f uens, 
kou 
eo 
ffoum 
univerfalls 
ni 
pacifica, 
ftiven tfchi 
produxit 
ki. 
memories „ 
toun 
compcfta, 
, y- 
Jormam-rerum , 
khi hioum ti 
familia fralres (fuere) majores minores 
ko ye van, 
fnguli (vixere) myriadem ' main, 
khi hioum ti 
familia fratres-majorcs (fuerunt) minores (que) 
(que) 
pa 
oBies (que) 
ffien 
mille 
ko 
fnguli 
khi 
familia 
ye 
myriadem 
ou 
quinquies 
quouo 
fruElum 
quouo 
frudlus (que) 
Soui 
Ignem (tradtans) 
ho 
ignem, 
San 
Trium 
y 
ad 
(vixerunt) 
kioum ti 
fratres-majores minores (que) 
ffien lo 
mille fexies 
khi kiao chin 
familia docuit hominem 
kiou 
adiftia (et) 
khi, 
familia, 
van 
unam 
nieou 
novem 
pe 
centum 
pa 
oUlics (que) 
chin, 
homines 
foui. 
annos 
ffien 
mille 
hoam 
hoam 
Tay 
Tay 
hao 
hao 
Khoun 
fo 
fo 
chin 
hominum 
kiao 
docuit (que) 
v 
(et) quinque 
hi khi 
hi familia, 
chin 
ti 
ti 
tt 
terram-cokre, 
tfehou. 
manfones. 
ffouon 
terebrando 
chin 
homines 
ki 
recenfo (hac eft.) 
foum fern 
fpiritus generavit 
klieou, 
- ko 
fnguli 
mo 
arbores 
mo 
lignem 
pern 
foui. 
annos. 
foui. 
annos . 
fou 
quatuor 
gvei 
habere 
ffoul 
concepit 
chou. 
metalla-fundere (et) coquere , 
khe 
ferpenlart 
lioai 
(quoad) corpus, 
hominem (que) 
(quoad) caput, 
docuit fonos muf cos. 
pi kien 
tfchi, 
tern 
pa 
qoua. Sfai 
in pi kien 
medicus (fuit 3) injlituit 
o£lo 
fortes. Fuit 
hoei 
ye pe 
ye 
khe 
v nien„ 
honoratus, (id eft, regnavit ) 
unum centum 
unum 
decern 
quinque annos . 
Niou-koua 
khi 
fum 
fern 
Niou-koua 
familia, 
, fpiritus 
generavit (earn) 
ffiam 
tfehim 
khe 
V 
khi 
koum 
fimul cornplexam 
decern 
quinque 
fami lias 
fimul 
ye ffien 
fan 
pe 
lo khe 
yn 
mien. 
unum mille 
ter 
centum 
fexagent a 
fuperfites 
(fuerunt) annos. 
Yen ti tfehini 
nonngi 
khi 
Yen-ti-tfchin 
noung 
familia, 
kiam 
fern 
chin 
kliin 
yeou 
ex- optima-regid- do mo 
nalus 
homo (quoad) corpus 
bos 
kheou 
ffai 
kio 
feou 
tfchi 
(quoad) caput 
aravit 
fulcos, fecit (per) 
colics 
viedicus (fuit) 
ffo 
