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branches to enable the philologist to satisfy himself 
that he is justified in regarding them as forming 
homogeneous groups. But the various members of 
any one of these families often differ widely in their 
vocabularies, and sometimes are unlike in many 
indicates the position of languages possibly allied. 
Map No. 5.—Map of Africa, showing range of Bantu Languages. 
grammatical points. For instance, Gaila and Sillia 
(Shlu) (the language of the Moroccan Berbers) are 
both members of the Hamitic group, yet, beyond their 
structural resemblance and their agreement in certain 
main features of grammar, they scarcely possess a root 
or test-word in common. 1 I need not multiply instances 
1 Compare with this Lu-ganda and Oci-herrero , languages spoken at 
