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" Languages are said to be cognate when such relations between them are found that they are supposed to have descended from a common ancestral speech. The evidence of cognation is derived exclusively from the vocabulary. Grammatic similarities are not supposed... "
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Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the ..., Volume 7

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - 1891 - 530 pages
...language is called a stock or family when it is not found to be cognate with any other language. Languages are said to be cognate when such relations between...remembered that extreme peculiarities of grammar, like the vocal mutations of the Hebrew or the monosyllabic separation of the Chinese, have not been discovered...
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Annual Reports, Volume 7

1891 - 536 pages
...language is called a stock or family when it is not found to be cognate with any other language. Languages are said to be cognate when such relations between...remembered that extreme peculiarities of grammar, like the vocal mutations of the Hebrew or the monosyllabic separation of the Chinese, have not been discovered...
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Indian Linguistic Families of America, North of Mexico

John Wesley Powell - 1891 - 488 pages
...language is called a stock or family when it is not found to be cognate with any other language. Languages are said to be cognate when such relations between...remembered that extreme peculiarities of grammar, like the vocal mutations of the Hebrew or the monosyllabic separation of the Chinese, have not been discovered...
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Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the ...

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - 1891 - 548 pages
...language is called a stock or family when it is not found to be cognate with any other language. Languages are said to be cognate when such relations between...supposed to furnish evidence of cognation, but to bo phenomena, in part relating to stage of culture and in part adventitious. It must be remembered...
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Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the ..., Volume 7, Parts 1885-1886

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology - 1891 - 540 pages
...language is called a stock or family when it is not found to be cognate with any other language. Languages are said to be cognate when such relations between...to have descended from a common ancestral speech. Tho evidence of cognation is derived exclusively from the vocabulary. Grammatic similarities are not...
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The United States of America: A Study of the American Commonwealth ..., Volume 1

Nathaniel Southgate Shaler - 1894 - 860 pages
...be cognate with any other. Languages are said to be cognate when such relations appear between them that they are supposed to have descended from a common...remembered that extreme peculiarities of grammar, such as the vowel mutations of the Hebrew or the monosyllabic separation of the Chinese, have not been...
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The United States of America: A Study of the American Commonwealth ..., Volume 1

Nathaniel Southgate Shaler - 1894 - 876 pages
...be cognate with any other. Languages are said to be cognate when such relations appear between them that they are supposed to have descended from a common...remembered that extreme peculiarities of grammar, such as the vowel mutations of the Hebrew or the monosyllabic separation of the Chinese, have not been...
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L'unità d'origine del linguaggio

Alfredo Trombetti - 1905 - 242 pages
...America north of Mexico, pag. 11, dice : « The evidente of cognation is derived exclusively f'rom thè vocabulary. Grammatic similarities are not supposed...relating to stage of culture and in part adventitious ». Un' opinione più contraria di questa a tutti gì' insegnamenti della glottologia sarebbe stato...
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Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages

Franz Boas - 1966 - 238 pages
...stock or family when it is not found to be cognate with any other language. Languages are said to IK; cognate when such relations between them are found...exclusively from the vocabulary. Grammatic similarities aro not supposed to furnish evidence of cognation, but to be phenomena, in part relating to stage of...
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