The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . the relations of ideas are expressed exclusivelyby terminations or suffixes—inflections, prefixes and pre-positions, as expressive of relations, being completely unknownto them. Other peculiarities characteristic of the Altaiclanguages are the vocal harmony occurring in many of them,the inability to have more than one consonant in the beginningof a word, and the expression of the plural by a peculiar affix,the case terminations being the same in the plural as in
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . the relations of ideas are expressed exclusivelyby terminations or suffixes—inflections, prefixes and pre-positions, as expressive of relations, being completely unknownto them. Other peculiarities characteristic of the Altaiclanguages are the vocal harmony occurring in many of them,the inability to have more than one consonant in the beginningof a word, and the expression of the plural by a peculiar affix,the case terminations being the same in the plural as in thesingular. The affinity between the different branches of theAltaic stem is thus founded mainly on analogy or resemblancein the construction of the languages, while the different tonguesin the material of language (both in the words themselvesand in the expression of relations) show a very limited affinity G 82 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [(;hap. or none at all. The circumstance that the Samoyeds for tliepresent have as their nearest neighbours several Finnish-Ugriauraces (Lapps, Syrjaeni, Ostjaks, and Voguls), and that these. SAMOYEDS. rrom Suhlcissinjs Neu-entdecktes Sieweria, worinnen die Zobeln gefangon Zittaul693. 1 A still more extraordinary idea of the Samoyeds, than that which thiswoodcut gives iis, we get from the way in which they are mentioned inthe account of the ioumev which the Italian Minorite, Joannes de PianoCarpini, midertook in High Asia in the years 1245-47 as ambassador fromthe Pope to the mighty conqueror of the Mongolian hordes. In this bookof travels it is said that Occodai Khan, Chingis Khans son, after havingb3en defeated by the Hungarians and Poles, turned towards the north,conquered the Bascarti, i e. the Great Hungarians, then came into collisionwith the Parositi—who had wonderfidly small stomachs and mouths, aTiddid no eat flesh, but only boiled it and nourished themselves by inhalingthe steam—and finally came to the Samoffedi, who liv
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