The Witchita is probably one of these:—
| English. | Caddo. | Witchita. |
|---|---|---|
| head | cundo | etskase. |
| hair | beunno | deodske. |
| eye | nockkochun | kidahkuck. |
| nose | sol | dutstistoe. |
| mouth | nowoese | hawkoo. |
| tongue | ockkotunna | hutskee. |
| tooth | ockkodeta | awk. |
| one | whiste | cherche. |
| two | bit | mitch. |
| three | dowoh | daub. |
| four | peaweh | dawquats. |
| five | dissickka | esquats. |
| six | dunkkee | kehass. |
| seven | bissickka | keopits. |
| eight | dowsickka | keotope. |
| nine | pewesickka | sherchekeeite. |
| ten | binnah | skedorash. |
The Adahi has already been noticed as being a comparatively isolated language, but, nevertheless, a language with numerous miscellaneous affinities.
The Attacapa is one of the pauro-syllabic languages of America, by which I mean languages that, if not monosyllabic after the fashion of the languages of south-eastern Asia, have the appearance of being so. They form a remarkable class, but it is doubtful whether they form a natural one, i. e. whether they are more closely connected with each other in the other elements of philological affinity than they are with the tongues not so characterized. They deserve, however, what cannot be given in the present paper, a special consideration.
For the north-eastern districts of Mexico, New Leon, Tamaulipas, &c., i. e. for the ports between the Rio Grande and Tampico, no language is known to us by specimens. It is only known that the Cumanch dips deeply into Mexico. So does the Apatch.
A tribe, lately mentioned, that of the Lipans, is, perhaps, Apatsh. Burnett states that they agree with the Mescalero and Seratics of the parts about the Paso del Norte. For these, however, we still want vocabularies iis nominibus.
Be the Lipan affinities what they may, it is clear that both the Cumanch and Apatsh languages belong to a class foreign to a great part of the areas over which they are spread—foreign, and (as such) intrusive—intrusive, and (as such) developed at the expense of some native language.
That the original area of the latter is that of the Navahos, Jecorillas, Hoopahs, Umkwas, Tlatskanai, and that these occupy the parts between the Algonkin and Eskimo frontiers—parts as far north as the Arctic circle—has already been stated. No repetition, however, is superfluous that gives definitude and familiarity to the very remarkable phænomena connected with the geographical distribution of the Athabaskans.
Neither are the details of the Paduca area—the area of the Wihinast, Shoshoni, Utah, and Cumanch forms of speech—without interest. To the north of California, the Wihinast, or Western Shoshonis, are separated from the Pacific by a thin strip of Jacon and Kalapuya country, being succeeded in the direction of Utah by the Shoshonis Proper. Then follow the Bonaks and Sampiches; the Shoshoni affinities of which need not be doubted, though the evidence of them is still capable of improvement. The Utah of the parts about Lake Utah is known to us by a vocabulary; and known to be Cumanch or Shoshoni—call it which you will. I call them all Paduca, from a population so named by Pike.