[ Footnote 173: ] See [page 163].
[ Footnote 174: ] A group of languages spoken in southeastern Asia, of which Khmer (Cambodgian) is the best known representative.
[ Footnote 175: ] A group of languages spoken in northeastern India.
[ Footnote 176: ] I have in mind, e.g., the presence of postpositions in Upper Chinook, a feature that is clearly due to the influence of neighboring Sahaptin languages; or the use by Takelma of instrumental prefixes, which are likely to have been suggested by neighboring “Hokan” languages (Shasta, Karok).
[ Footnote 177: ] Itself an amalgam of North “French” and Scandinavian elements.
[ Footnote 178: ] The “Celtic” blood of what is now England and Wales is by no means confined to the Celtic-speaking regions—Wales and, until recently, Cornwall. There is every reason to believe that the invading Germanic tribes (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) did not exterminate the Brythonic Celts of England nor yet drive them altogether into Wales and Cornwall (there has been far too much “driving” of conquered peoples into mountain fastnesses and land’s ends in our histories), but simply intermingled with them and imposed their rule and language upon them.
[ Footnote 179: ] In practice these three peoples can hardly be kept altogether distinct. The terms have rather a local-sentimental than a clearly racial value. Intermarriage has gone on steadily for centuries and it is only in certain outlying regions that we get relatively pure types, e.g., the Highland Scotch of the Hebrides. In America, English, Scotch, and Irish strands have become inextricably interwoven.
[ Footnote 180: ] The High German now spoken in northern Germany is not of great age, but is due to the spread of standardized German, based on Upper Saxon, a High German dialect, at the expense of “Plattdeutsch.”
[ Footnote 181: ] “Dolichocephalic.”
[ Footnote 182: ] “Brachycephalic.”