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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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t and classified. These Groups of Su-are the Mandingan tongues, SS^iSF*the Bornu languages, the agglutinative.Haussa, the Grabo, the Vei, the Yoryu-ban, and the Fulah. All of these areultimately related to a single originalform of speech, and are evidently but 644 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. varieties thereof. Each of the seven sub-groups referred to parts in its turn intoa multitude of dialects spoken by thenumerous tribes of the vast equatorialregion. The linguistic evolution of the Africanraces has not in any case gone beyondthe agglutinative stage. Within theselimits the Nigritian languages may besaid to be highly developed. If the so- named stand against such a conclu-sion. It has been found that manyforms of speech prevailing among theBantu peoples are of later develop-ment than any corresponding facts inthe tongues of the Central Africans.From this it would appear that the at-tempted derivation of the latter fromthe former contradicts the plainest prin-ciples of linguistic inquiry.
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FULAH HOUSES AND TYPES.—Drawn by E. Ronjat, from a photograph. cial evolution has lagged, the linguisticevolution has gone forward toward thecivilized forms of speech. Of all theAfrican languages, perhaps those of theBantu group are best developed, both inphonetic variety and melodiousness ofutterance. It is believed that the Bantu is theThe Bantu lan- latest development of allNigritian forms ofspeech. Nor does the geo-graphical position of the nations so guages; invasion <. iof foreign ele-ments. All around the vast limiting lines ofNigritia the stronger races, bearing theirmore highly developed forms of speech,have pressed, and still are pressing.There have thus been affected along theboundaries of the races under consid-eration modifications of the native lan-guages. The invasion of foreign speechhas been from every quarter of the com-pass, but such is the immeasurable areaoccupied by the native languages that noperceptible change has been wrought in A FRICA N NIGRITIA NS. —

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