I shall commence these examples with the Chinese pronouns, most of which are absolutely identical with those of the polysyllabic languages. This branch of the comparison will serve to place in a striking point of view the erroneous nature of the opinion generally received among philologists, that nations which agree are necessarily more nearly allied than those which differ(132) in their grammatical forms, the Chinese being found in this respect to agree in an unequivocal manner with the kindred English and German, in some of those very points in which they mutually differ widely! _Pronouns of the First Person_, “I” and “We.”—Ngan, Ngoo Ngo, “I” and “We,” (_Chinese._) Iōnga, Egōn, “I,” (_Greek._) _Pronouns of the Second Person_, “Thou” and “Ye.”—Irr, “Thou” and “Ye,” (_Chinese._) Ihr, “Ye,” (_German._) Yú, Yŏh, “Thou” and “Ye,” (_Chinese._) You, “Ye,” (_English._) Yō (_Provincial English_). Eoh (_Anglo-Saxon_), “Ye.” Nee, Nai, Nyú, “Thou” and “Ye,” (_Chinese._) Ne, “You,” (_Mandans, a North American Tribe._) In these instances the English “You” and the German “Ihr” differ totally. Moreover, in each language separately considered the plural differs altogether from the singular, which in German is expressed by “Du,” and in the English by “Thou.” The Chinese, which uses these terms, “Ihr” and “You,” conjointly and in both numbers, furnishes a satisfactory clue to these anomalies! _Pronouns of the Third Person._—E.e, “He,” “She,” “It,” (_Chinese._) E.ee.a, E.v.e, (_Hebrew._) He, masculine, (_English._) He, feminine, (_Welsh._)—Peé, “He,” “She,” “It,” also “That,” (_Chinese._) Phe, Ph, “This,” “That,” (_Hebrew._) Pha or Pe, the article “The,” (_Egypt._) _Specimens of Chinese Words, identical with equivalent Terms in the Languages of Europe and Western Asia, &c._ Keuen, “A Dog,” (_Chinese_), Kuōn (_Greek_), Coun (Plural, _Welsh_), Can-is (_Latin_).—Ma, “A Horse,” (_Chinese_), Morin Mantschu), Mä-hre (_German_), Ma-re (_English_), Ma-rch (_Welsh_.)—Mu, “A Mouse,” (_Chinese_), Mu-s, Mu-os Mu (_Greek_), Mu-s (_Latin._)—Lung,(133) “A Wolf,” (_Chinese_), Lukon (_Greek_), Lloun-og, “A Fox,” (_Welsh._)—Ioanģ, Iong, Io, “A Sheep,” (_Chinese_), Oin (_Greek_), Oen, “A Lamb,” (_Welsh_), Oi, Ai, Yi (_Irish._) Foò “A Father,” Moo “A Mother;” also Foò Tsin “A Father,” and Moó Tsin “A Mother.” Tsin means “A Relation,” (_Chinese._) The equivalent terms in the English and other Gothic dialects consist of the Chinese root, and a distinct suffix (answering the purpose of the separate Chinese word Tsin.) Fä-der (_Anglo-Saxon_), Fa-ther (_English_), Fa-ter (_German_), Mo-ther, (English), Mua-ter (_Old high German._)(134) Nan and Yin, “A Man,” (_Chinese._) Ninetz, “Men,” their national name, (_Samoieds._) Ninnee Inin, “A Man,” (_Algonquyn Dialects of N. America._)