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OBSERVATIONS
ON THE
L A N G U A G E OF S I W A H .
By WILLIAM MARSDEN, Esa- F. R. S.
To the Right Honourable Sir Joseph B an k s , Bart.
D ear S ir ,
Mv curiosity has been much gratified by your obliging communication
of Mr. Horneman’s specimen of the language spoken at
Siwah, or the Oasis of Ammon, in the Lybian Desert; and it will
afford satisfaction to you in return, to be informed, that notwithstanding
the accident to his papers, which we must all regret, and
which might cause some doubt to attach to the correctness of a list
subsequently formed, I am enabled to identify the words he has
transmitted, amongst the dialects of Africa with which we are already
acquainted, and thereby to increase the confidence we feel in thp
general accuracy of this zealous and enterprising traveller.
Not having any previous knowledge of the extensive people
whom he calls Tuarick, of whose language he was given to understand
that this of Siwah is a dialect, I directed my attention in the
first instance to the numerous specimens I possess of the languages