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1. English.
2. Hungarian.
3. Latin.
of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1899, which again was subjected to the favourable criticism of Mr. Sidney Ray, who has since successfully applied it in outline to sixteen languages,7 selected because unrelated and morphologically distinct, riz.,
4. Khasi, Hills of N.-E. Bengal.
5. Anam, French Cochin China.
6. Ashanti, West Africa.
7.
RECORD OF THE LANGUAGES OF SAVAGES.
Kafir, South Africa.
8. Malagasy, Madagascar.
9. Olo Ngadju or Dayak, South East
Borneo.
ENGLISH. Hurrah
I don't know
Very well go7 (with a lift of
the chin)
Humbug
Oh: I say (ironical)
It's broken Back me up
Say 'yes'
Not exactly Nonsense Yes (ironical) What a stink How sweet (smell, with a puffing out of the lips)
BEA. We
Uchin
0.- - Position of the Andamanese Languages in the General
Scheme of the Theory.
The next point for consideration is: Where do the Andamanese Languages come into the general scheme? This will be shown in the following general account of them, and as the grammatical terms used will be novel to the reader, the corresponding familiar terms will be inserted beside them in br ackets, wherever necessary to make the statements clear in a familiar manner. Diacritical marks will only be used when necessary to the elucidation of the text.
d.
Examples of Sentences of One Word.
The Andamanese Languages are rich in integer words, which are sentences in themselves, because they express a complete meaning. The following examples are called from Portman's lists:
Uchik
Akandiyadake
}Potek
Tarushno
Jeg
Kak
Cho
Wai (drawled) Chunge
Pue
10. 11.
Kobale
13.
14.
15.
16.
TABLE OF INTEGER WORDS. BOJIGYIB. Yui Konkete
BALAWA. Yui
Maka
Ya
Taruit
Jegl
12. Mortlock Ids, Caroline Group, Micro
nesia.
Nafor, Dutch New Guinea. Motu, British New Guinea.
Akanoiyadake
Pue
Kak
Ya
Wai (drawled) Chunye
Mota, Banks' Islands, Melanesia.
Samoan, Polynesia.
Awabakal, Lake Macquarie, Australia. Dakota, North America.
Και
1 Kalat Turush
Και
Omkotichwake {Okamkoti
chwachin.
}
Yokokene
Jeklangi
Kaka.
Aikut
Köle Chunyeno
221
JUWAI. Yui
Koien
Pue
T'ruish
Atokwe
Alō
Kene
K'le Chunye
Pue
See ante, Vol. XXVIII. pp. 197 ff., 225 ff.: Vol. XXXI. p. 165 ff.
Portman is so frequently inaccurate that it must be understood that throughout this article, wherever he is quoted it is with corrections.
• This is doubtful.
