. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . Thesyllable im is merely the plural affix, and the r theHebrew euphonic jf(/, making smooth the transitionof sound between the syllables ,r//rtW(! and im. is a true monosyllable with its verbalhusk of particles and suffixes. So in all cases what-soever. In the Semitic languages two significantroot words can not
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . Thesyllable im is merely the plural affix, and the r theHebrew euphonic jf(/, making smooth the transitionof sound between the syllables ,r//rtW(! and im. is a true monosyllable with its verbalhusk of particles and suffixes. So in all cases what-soever. In the Semitic languages two significantroot words can not combine. 266 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. It were difficult to discover for whatreason the vowels of the Semitic lan-guages (generally only three in number•—a, i, u) were reduced to such a sub-Subordinate ordinate office. In thepronunciation of words thevowels must indeed consti-tute the body of the sound, and the con- place ofvovrelsin Hebrew alpha. bet. ing chose to regard the consonants asthe essential elements of speech. Normay we fail to note the fact that thisview is to a degree substantiated bymodern science. The vocalic elementof language is common to the utteranceof man and beast, but the consonantalpart can be produced only by the organs *.- 4 * ? \. rPROFESSIONAL LETTER by Paul Hardy, from a photograph. sonants only the limiting elements bywhich the sounds are boimded and de-fined. The vowel in all languages is asa fluid in a phial; the phial is the conso-nant. But the Semitic peoples in thereproduction of their languages in writ- of man. Birds and four-footed creatureacan be taught to utter vowels, but suchsounds lack definition. The lips andtongue and palate must be brought to ahigh degree of flexibility and disciplineunder the presidency of the ear and 77//; HEBREWS.—LANGUAGE. 267 reason before the finer consonantal partsof language can be produced. This dis-cipline brutes can not attain. He who has not given some attentionto the study of Semitic l
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