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
The languages which now follow are known but imperfectly; so that the
classes which they form are all provisional, and of uncertain value. It
is certainly not safe to call them Kolúch, although they all contain a
notable per-centage of Kolúch words; nor yet is it advisable to throw
them all together as members of a separate division--equivalent to,
but distinct from, the Kolúch. For this, they are hardly sufficiently
like each other, and hardly sufficiently unlike those spoken to the
north of them. In other words we are now in one of those difficult
ethnological areas, where we have no broad and trenchant lines of
demarcation, but the phenomena of intermixture instead. This is the
coast and a little beyond the coast of the Pacific, where the common
climatologic conditions presented by a deeply-indented sea-board, make
this arrangement natural as well as convenient.
THE HAIDAH DIALECTS OR LANGUAGES.
_Locality._--Queen Charlotte's Islands, and the southern
extremity of the Prince of Wales's Archipelago.
_Spoken by._--_a_, the Skittegats; _b_, Massets; _c_,
Kumshahas; _d_, Kyganie.
CHEMMESYAN.
_Locality._--N.L. 55°, sea-coast and islands.
_Divisions._--1. Naaskok, inhabiting Observatory Inlet; 2.
Chemmesyan, in Dundas's Island, and Stephenson's Island; 3, 4,
Kitshatlah and Kethumish, in Princess Royal Islands.
BILLECHÚLA.
_Locality._--The mouth of the Salmon River.
In M'Kenzie's Travels we find a few words from a tribe on
the Salmon River. Their locality is called by M'Kenzie the
_Friendly Village_. By the aid of Mr. Tolmie's vocabularies we
can now place this hitherto unfixed dialect. It belongs to the
Billechoola tongue.
ENGLISH. FRIENDLY VILLAGE. BILLECHOOLA.
_Salmon_ zimilk shimilk.
_Dog_ watts watz.
_House_ zlaachle shmool.
_Bark mat_ yemnez "
_Cedar-bark blanket_ " tzummi.
_Beaver_ couloun couloun.
_Stone_ aichts quilstolomick.
_Water_ ulkan kullah.
_Mat_ gitscom stuchom.
_Bonnet_ ilcaette kayeete.
HAELTZUK AND HAILTSA.
_Locality._--Sea-coast from Hawkesbury Island to Broughton's
Archipelago; the northern part of Quadra's and Vancouver's
Island(?).
_Tribes._--Hyshalla, Hyhysh, Esleytuk, Weekenoch, Nalatsenoch,
Quagheuil, Tlatla-Shequilla, Lequeeltoch.
The language of Fitz-Hugh Sound, of which we find the numerals in the
Mithridates, seems to be Hailtsa. On the other hand, the termination,
_-scum_, reappears in the Blackfoot numerals.
ENGLISH. _Two_.
_F. Sound_ malscum.
_Haeltzuk_ malook.
English _three_.
_F. Sound_ utascum.
_Haeltzuk_ yootook.
English _four_.
_F. Sound_ moozcum.
_Haeltzuk_ moak.
_Billechoola_ moash.
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