. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. them more or less numerous suffixes. Among theseajrgiutinative are the Tartar or Turanian languages of Central and Northernanguages. ^^:^^^ those of the Finns and Lapps of Northern Europe, theHungarian or Magyar, and the Turkish. The Basque language (NorthernSpain) is a highly complex example of this kind of language. The monosyllabic languages of South-eastern Asia are best
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. them more or less numerous suffixes. Among theseajrgiutinative are the Tartar or Turanian languages of Central and Northernanguages. ^^:^^^ those of the Finns and Lapps of Northern Europe, theHungarian or Magyar, and the Turkish. The Basque language (NorthernSpain) is a highly complex example of this kind of language. The monosyllabic languages of South-eastern Asia are best repre- MonosyUaWc sented by the Chinese, with multitudes of monosyllables, which languages, yemain isolated, being greatly varied in meaning by the use of varied tones ii^ pronouncing them. The languages of Further India and Tibet belong to this group. The Malayo-Polynesian languages form another large group, pro- Maiavo- ^^^^y leaving several main subdivisions. They are of a low Polynesian grade of structure, though many of their roots have two sylla- anguages. i^j^g^ ^^^ reduplication, or the doubling of syllables, is much used. The Australian and Papuan languages appear to be distinct from these. INTEOD EUROPEAN AND ASIATIC ANIMALS IJSITRODUCTION. The Dravidian (Tamil, Telugu, Canarese) and Kolarian groups oflanguages are the representatives of speech in India before the Aryansother groups ^^^t^ invaded it. We must notice, further, the distinctness ofof langiiages. \\-^q Egyptian or Hamitic group of languages, the South Africanor Bantu family, most remarkable for its great use of prefixes in manyvarieties, and the Central African groups, as yet very imperfectly immense number of native languages of America are as yet very littleunderstood ; and it is impossible to do any more than state that most ofthem agree in being polysynthetic, or using complex combinations of further study of language shows that the mental ability ofnations is not by any me
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