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Excerpt from Language-Study Based on Bantu or an Inquiry Into the Laws of Root-Formation: The Original Plural, the Sexual Dual, and the Principles of Word-Comparison; Tables Illustrating the Primitive Pronominal System Restored in the African Bantu Family of Speech
Aryan and other languages. Subsequently, in following up an observation of Mr. Rath's as to the dualistic tendency of the prefix oma (ama the sexual dual became clear to him. Now, these two fundamental principles, viz., the vowel-laws and the sexual dual, have already, at any rate as regards Bantu, met with the approval of two high philological authorities in England, and it is hoped that the other principles set forth in this little work - the result of over thirty years' patient research - Will also commend themselves to the student as truths founded on sufficient evidence, and illustrative of the new and fuller light the study of Bantu is destined to shed on the Aryan family and on the origin of language universally. For whilst. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
