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стр.‘ 1. many Colonies.

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But now the feveral Languages that are ufed in the

world do farre exceed this number.

Flin] and Strabofdo both make' Naŕ-Hîß- 111’

mention of a great Mart-Town in Colcbo: named Diófeuria,to which men Í'âìïfjb’m of three hundred Nations, and of fo many feveral Languageawere wont to refòrt for Trading. W'hioh, confidering the narrow com рай of Traf

ñek before the invention of the magnetic Needle , mult nCCds be but а fmall proportion, in comparìfon to thofe many ofthe remoter and un., known parts of the world.

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Some of the American Hiftories relate, that in every fourfcore miles Minimum@ of that vali Country, and almolt in every particular valley 0f Pern, the Remains Inhabitants have a dif’tinû Language.

And one who for lfeveral years P." b и

travelled the Northern parts of America about Florida, and could fpealt nbfsfieétx. i.;

Их feveralLangua'ges of thofe people, doth aflirm, that he found, upon сВЭР-Ь his enquiry and e'onverfe with thern,more than a thoufand different Lan guages amongft them;

As for thofe Languages 'which feem to have no derivation from, or de- è I I I pendance upon, or afiinity with one another," they are дума Lingue та- ° ' tricer, or Mother-tongues.

Of thefe _'j'oßpb Sealiger affirms there are ele- piafńbe ¿e

ven,and not more,ufed in Europe5 whereof four are of more general and E_UFORZGIUUÍ

large extent,and the other feven of anarrower corupafs and ufff‘- 0f the has“ _ more generalTongu'es; Y I. The Greek was anciently of very great extent, not onely in Europe, EMM»,

but in A/îa too, and Afria , where fcveral Colonies of that Nation were `lîix‘lagu'iriurf» planted, by which difperfion and mixture with other peòplß it did d'5' с‘ ' P' t' generate into (счета! тает. Beftdes thofe four that are Commonly ' ‘ noted, the Dorit', Ionic, Лада‘, Attic , Herodotur doth mention fout`

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feveral Dialeâs of the Ionic. The inhabitants of Rbodet, Cyprus, Crete, had each of them fome peculiarity in their Language. _And the preferir Coptic or «Egyptian feetns, both from the wordt and the финал, to be a branch of this family, and was probably fpred amongli that people-in the days of Alexander the Great,upon his conquering of them :Though fome conceive that there were at Май 30000 families of Greek: planted in that Country long before his time. ‚ ‚ ‚ y

2. The Latin, though this be much of it a derivation from the Greek, (of which the now French, гриф/Ь, and Italian are (счета! off-fprings

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and derivations) had anciently four (счет! Dialeéts, as Petrus Спит“ De h‘mena'

Паста out of Verra.

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3. The Teutonic or German is now diftinguií-hed into 'Upper and ‘дат. Ème“ .

er. Thetvpper hath two notable Dialetïts.

r. The Dani/b, мифах, ог сыр. ,_

perhaps the Get/aie, to which belongs the Languagc'ufed ‘in Denmark, Noma), Steedelgand, and Wand. 2. The Saxon, to which appertain the feveral Languages of the Eng/i i, the Scott, the Frißanr, and thofe on „the North of Elfje.

4. The Slavonic is extended, though with fome variation, through many large Territories, .Mu/bovin, Huj/ia,Po/and, BobenyíaJ/pndalia, Crpa» ш, Lithuania, Dalnutiar, and-is faicl to be the vulgar Language Мед a

топ?“ 6o feveral Nations.

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T 1e Languages of мы extent are, yt . The ¿Ibane/ê, от old Будет, now Мёд in the mountainous parts-of` Epirm.

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