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J)a{jr Æcïï&gke LifcK:
Brusciotti, and from Cannecattem, as cited by Vater and Bow-
dich, with the accounts given from authentic sources respecting
the Kosah Kafir language, that the same laws of Construction,
and the same principles of declension and conjugation,
hold in all these extensively-spread languages. In a great degree
the same laws of. construction are, as I have observed, in
all probability, common to all the genuine African languages;
but those of Southern Africa are by many circumstances shown
to be the most intimately related. We have likewise, in the
instance of these last, besides the proof of near analogy in
grammatical construction, which' alone would bring the respective'
languages within the same c l a s s ,< a further proof of
relationship in the resemblance of their vocabularies. On the
evidence of these facts we may, perhaps, venture to comprise
them all in one f a m il y of languages./
Perhaps,.indeed, after faking into consideration the coincidences
already pointed out in their respective, vocabularies, and
the still more decided marks of. affinity which depend on gram-*
matical structure, we shall be warranted in comparing the relation;
between these idioms of South Africa with that which is
now generally allowed to subsist between the languages of the
Indo-European nations.
S e c t io n - VI.—Physical Characters of ike Nations of inter-
tropical Africa, to the southward of the Equator.
We have seen that a vast region id'Africa, including perhaps
the whole space between the tfdpic of Capricorn and
the equinoctial line, is principally the abode of'nations connected
by affinity of languages with the races of people who
inhabit countries further towards the south. Some of the
tribes comprised in this region are strongly: distinguished in
many respects from the Kosahs and Bechuanas, Thg’'slaves
brought from Mosambique to the Cape of Good Hope are
considered as a very different class of people from'the Kafirs.
By Mr. Barrow, for example, they are contrasted with the
Kafirs. “ At Mosambique and Sofala, the black people^’
says this excellent writer, u are all Negroes and Ije speaks
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