The American Race: A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South AmericaBrinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison)
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The American Race: A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South America
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison)
Indians; Indians -- Languages
_Chibcha._ _Aroac._ _Chimila._ _Guaymi._
Man, muysca, sökue, söökué, nitocua.
Woman, ti-güi, yun-kue, yuunkué, meri.
Sun, sua, yuia, neiin-á, ninguane.
Moon, chie, tii, tii, só.
Fire, gata, gué, uuñé, nocua.
Water, sie, yira, niitake, si, ña.
Head, zysqui, zankalla, oökrá, thokua.
Eye, upcua, uba, uaákua, ocua.
Ear, cuhuca, kuhcua, kuúsaka, olo.
Mouth, quihica, köhka, köökua, cā da.
Nose, saca, niksaiñ, naañakra, secua.
Tongue, pcua, kuca, kuá, tudra.
Tooth, sica, köhka (?), né, tu.
Hand, yta, atta-kra, aattakra, cuse.
Foot, quihicha, ksa, pukré, pookré, ngoto.
House, güe, húi, aátaka, jú.
1, ata, kuté, kuté, kr-ati.
2, boza, moga, muuhná, kro-bu.
3, mica, maigua, teieme´, kro-mai.
4, muihica, murieié, murieié, kro-boko.
5, hisca, achigua, kutendeu-rehattagra, kro-rigua.
The relations of the Chibcha dialects are so important in their bearings
on the question of the migrations from South into North America, that in
addition to the specific comparisons on page 186, I here add vocabularies
of six dialects; three, the Chibcha, Aroac and Chimila, from south of the
Isthmus, and three, the Guaymi, Talamanca and Boruca, from north of it.
The Chibcha proper is a language of extremely difficult phonetics for a
European, and doubtless the Spanish orthography, in which it is rendered,
is far from accurate.
The fundamental identity of the dialects of the stock becomes much more
apparent after a study of their laws of phonetic variation, as set forth
by Dr. Max Uhle (_anté_, p. 185).
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