BY DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D., LL.D.,

Professor of American Archæology and Linguistics in the
University of Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA:

MACCALLA & COMPANY, PRINTERS, 237-9 DOCK STREET,

Prefatory Note.

The papers which follow were contributed to the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society in the early months of 1892. Most of them are based upon unpublished manuscripts in European and American Libraries, which I have had the opportunity of examining within the last year. They include material on at least four linguistic stocks, hitherto wholly unknown to students of this interesting branch of anthropologic science.

I have added two studies of Mexican languages, one with South American affinities, the other apparently standing isolated among all American languages and strikingly simple. in construction.

Philadelphia, April, 1892.

CONTENTS.

Prefatory Note....

Contents...

I. The Tacana Language and its Dialects..

II. The Jivaro Language..

III. The Cholona Language..

IV. The Leca Language.

V. A Text in the Manao Dialect.....

VI. The Bonari Dialect of the Carib Stock........

VII. The Hongote Language and the Patagonian Dialects

VIII. The Dialects and Affinities of the Kechua Language.

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Affinities of South and North American Languages

X. On the Dialects of the Betoyas and Tucanos...

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APPENDIX.

I. On the Chinantec Language

II. On the Mazatec Language.

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