LANGUAGES OF THE KILIMA-NJAR0 DISTRICT. 451 
language spoken over a fairly large district on both 
banks of the White Nile between 4° and 6° N. latitude. 
The fact of its evident relationship to Masai was 
pointed out by Lepsins in the preface to his Nubian 
grammar, but this interesting discovery has been 
completely ignored by other authorities on African 
languages, who have grouped the Masai with Nuba, 3 
Fula, and many other utterly dissimilar tongues. 
At the present time, from the information we possess, 
we are able to constitute a separate family of African 
languages called the Masai, of which the undermen¬ 
tioned forms of speech are probably members. (I append 
a query to those of doubtful existence or affinities.) 
Bari. 
Latuka. 
Laiigo h 
SuM 
Samburu ? 
Masai. 
The only possible affinities that the Masai group 
displays for other independent families of African 
languages are, on the one hand, with the Dinka and 
the Siluk tongues, and on the other, with the Galla 
branch of the Hamitic family. 
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With the Dinka and Siluk (Suli, Lur, Siluk, &c.), the 
resemblances are confined to a certain undoubted corre¬ 
spondence in the vocabularies,numerals, and pronouns; 
while in grammar there is scarcely any affinity. 
Masai proper, more than the northern members of 
the family, approaches the Galla somewhat in gram¬ 
matical construction, and there are, besides, a few 
cases of correspondence in the numerals and pronouns. 
3 This, I must confess, is a conclusion so difficult of explanation 
that I fail to understand how it was arrived at. 
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