. 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. her husband, thefather gives up his home to her. At the other end of Asia Minor, near Armenia, there remain communi-ties of Greeks speaking their old Greek dialect with little , at Pharazeh, on the border of Cappadocia and Cilicia, the Greeks areproud of their language, as being purer than the modern (Romaic) THE TURKS, ARMENIANS, KURDS, ETC. 481 Greek, and k
. 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. her husband, thefather gives up his home to her. At the other end of Asia Minor, near Armenia, there remain communi-ties of Greeks speaking their old Greek dialect with little , at Pharazeh, on the border of Cappadocia and Cilicia, the Greeks areproud of their language, as being purer than the modern (Romaic) THE TURKS, ARMENIANS, KURDS, ETC. 481 Greek, and keep up tlie tradition of their having come from the Pelo-ponnesus. On the other hand, if these stick to the old paths, many otother races join the growing nationality of the Greeks ; many Bulgarians,Wallachians, Circassians, and even Cossacks, learn Greek, and as far aspossible become one with them. For centuries there was established, in the ports and mercantiletowns of the Levant, a class of traders known as Levantines, who weremostly Italians by race, and Roman Catholics, who carried onthe greater part of the trade. There had grown up with theirtraffic a sort of lingua Franca of words without inflexion, chiefly. IN A TARTAll HOUSE, ARMENIA. Italian, but also including Spanish, Provencal, French, Greek, Turkish,and other terms; in fact, one might call it a counterpart Linguaof pigeon English as spoken at Hong Kong; but this is Franca,giving way, as indeed the Levantines themselves are, before the advanceof the Greeks; but French is becoming largely used in commercialintercourse. Of the numerous Jews, Circassians, Abkasians, gipsies, etc.,of Asia Minor, no particular mention need here be made. What the Greeks are to Western Asia Minor, the Armenians are tothe rest, being especially congregated in Armenia proper. ^heThese people, distributed though they are between three Armenians,powers, preserve still their national character and feeling, and are perhaps VIII. I I 482 THE INH
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