The Chevalier Bunsen has connected it with the Indo-European; the early development of Ægyptian civilization dicating this.
The real affinities are those which its geographical situation indicates, viz. with the Berber, Nubian, and Galla tongues, and through them with the African languages altogether,[183] Negro and non-Negro.
FOOTNOTES:
[183] A short list of the words common to the Coptic and the African tongues at large, may be found in the author's Report on Ethnographical Philology.—Transactions of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1847, p. 223.
G.
SEMITIC ATLANTIDÆ.
No error is greater than to imagine that connection with the Semitic is synonymous with separation from the African stock, a remark which leads us from the Copts to—
THE SEMITIC TRIBES AND NATIONS.
Area.—Abyssinia, Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, parts of Kurdistan.