CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGES.

Native Languages in Advance of Social Customs -- Characteristic Individuality of American Tongues -- Frequent Occurrence of Long Words -- Reduplications, Frequentatives, and Duals -- Intertribal Languages -- Gesture-Language -- Slavé and Chinook Jargons -- Pacific States Languages -- The Tinneh, Aztec, and Maya Tongues -- The Larger Families Inland -- Language as a Test of Origin -- Similarities in Unrelated Languages -- Plan of this Investigation 551