A history of laryngology and rhinology / [Jonathan Wright].

  • Jonathan Wright
Date:
1914
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    Hvorka’s investigations by examining other languages having no known affiliation with the so-called Aryan stock: Chinese Pe Japanese Hana Congolese (Africa) Djolo Mexican (Nahaute) Yacatl South American Indians. Aymara Nasa Moxas Nusiri Incas (Quichua) Seneca North American Indians. Cree Miskiwan Lenape (Delaware) Wikiwan Onondaga Onionchia Chinook Bekats Clallam (Washington Territory) Nuk’su A number of vocabularies of other North American languages show no such conformity as the European languages. There is, however, as will be seen, a suggestion of a common derivation of the word even as between the tongues of the three continents (Europe, Asia, America), but it would lead us too far astray to pursue the question further. It will be noted that the persistence of the nasal hi” and the sibilant ‘‘s’’ is not so marked in the languages of the non-Ary an races of the world.