The Natural History of the Varieties of ManLatham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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The Natural History of the Varieties of Man
Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Ethnology
_Locality._--Each side of Yenisey, limited by the Northern
Samöeids between Inbask and Turuchansk, and by the Southern
Samöeids and Turks, in the neighbourhood of Krasnoiarsk. On the
west are the south-eastern tribes of the northern Samöeids. On
the east Tungusians and Turks.
_Native name._--Könniyüng.
_Vocabularies._--1. Inbask. 2. Pumpokolsk. 3. Assan. 4. Kott.
5. Arinzi. 6. Denka.
YUKAHIRI.
_Native name._--Andon-Domni. Called by the Koræki
Atal=_spotted_, from wearing rein-deer skins.
_Locality._--Valley of the Kolyma, originally of the Yana and
Indijirka also.
_Particular tribes._--1. Tsheltiere, on the River Omolon.
2. Omoki, on the Atasey. 3-4. Tshuvantsi and Kudinski on
the Anisey. 5. Konghini, on the Kolyma. 6. Shelagi, on the
promontory of Shelagskoi Noss.
_Conterminous_ with the Yakut Turks, the Lamut Tungusians, and
the Koriaks.
The Yukahiri, although said to have been, even as late as the beginning
of the last century, a powerful people, are at present rapidly
diminishing. The Omoki and Shelagi are either extinct, or nearly so. So
also, most probably, are the Tseltiere, the Kudinski, and the Konghini.
Laying out of the account the influence of Russia, the northern Koriaks
on the east, the Yakuts on the west, and the Lamut Tungusians on the
south, have been the chief encroaching tribes.
The writer who has paid most attention to the language of these three
divisions of the Siberian population is Klaproth; who, I believe, was
also the first who separated the Yeniseians from the Ugrians. With
these they were confounded, from the fact of their being denominated
by the Russians, _Ostiaks_; a term, which from being already applied
to the Ugrians of the Obi, was equivocal. To obviate this ambiguity,
it was necessary to speak of two kinds of Ostiaks, those of the Obi,
and those of the Yenisey; and so the nomenclature became confused. All
this, however, is remedied by adhering to Klaproth's term _Yeniseian_.
And such is the present custom of philologists.
Respecting the extent to which the Yeniseian, the Samöeid, and
Yukahiri, are isolated languages; the classification of the present
writer is opposed to that of the Asia Polyglotta. Klaproth raises each
to the rank of a separate family, and neither admits any definite
relationship between the three, as compared with each other, nor yet
between any one of them and any of the neighbouring languages. Still he
indicates some important _general_ and _miscellaneous_ affinities; and
Prichard does the same. The following table helps to verify the present
classification.
A.
_The Yeniseian of the Asia Polyglotta, and the Yukahiri of the
Asia Polyglotta_.
_English_, beard
Inbask, _kulye_, _kulgung_
Pumpokolsk, _clépuk_
Assan, _culup_, _chulp_
Kott, _hulup_
Arinzi, _korolep_
Yukahiri, _bu-gylbe_
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