Note 113 — Chapter III · THE THREE CAUSES OF CHANGE IN LANGUAGE.

“Die Melanesischen Sprachen” (1873), p. 4. According to Meyer (“Sitzungsberichte d. Oesterr. Akademie,” 1874, p. 301), “Riedel has made us acquainted with twenty-three dialects in some parts only of North Celebes, and the number of dialects in the whole island can only be estimated at hundreds.... But in New Guinea this dialectical variety is very much greater and more thorough-going, since there the very foundations of a state have not yet begun to be laid.”