123 There is an able pamphlet by Dr. Löewe, in which he maintains the Hebrew to be the Parent of the Egyptian. Dr. Löewe’s examples appear to me to be equally conclusive _against_ the specific connexion he advocates, and _in support_ of the original unity of these tongues at a remote era.
124 Compare Sohn (_German_), Son (_English_).
129 The The African languages (as far as they are known to us), and the American, according to Du Ponceau, are all polysyllabic.
130 To this rule, however, pronouns are an exception.
131 Numerous examples also occur in Appendix A.
132 Cæteris paribus, this is a correct view; but not where grammatical resemblances are treated as more important evidence than other resemblances.
133 The occurrence of nasal sounds at the end of words, as in this instance, form an apparent exception to the principle that Chinese words consist simply of one consonant followed by a vowel. But these nasals Adelung states to be mere evanescent intonations.
134 Adelung, notwithstanding his opinion that the Chinese is a perfectly distinct language, was struck with the analogy between “Foo Tsin,” and “Moo Tsin,” and “Fa-ther” and “Mo-ther.”
135 It is observable, that as in the above instances of Heuen and Keen, the Chinese verbs very commonly terminate in a nasal _n_, as do those of the Persian and Teutonic.
_ 138 Ind._ means, _N. A. Indian_. This term (_Ind._) is used here exclusively to distinguish words from the dialects of the Algonquyn class.
139 A Western Tribe visited by Mr. Catlin.
143 This word is from the dialects of the Iroquois, another class of Indian Tribes, who inhabited the present territory of the United States.
144 “War,” Aguwarrie, in the Iroquois dialects, Gewehr (_German_), Guerre (_French_), War (_English_).
146 Nakoha (_Mandan_), Noh gee (_Sioux_).
147 They are chiefly composed of Pronouns, terms which form the basis of Grammar.
148 Hooynt does not mean “It” in Welsh. In that language it is a plural and not a singular, as Mr. Catlin supposes. This circumstance, however, does not render the example less relevant, “Hooynt” (_Welsh_) being clearly identical with the terms from the Mandan, Turkish, &c., with which it is compared above; for pronouns, singular and plural, were originally the same words as they still are in all cases in the Chinese, and in several instances in the above examples.