Note 539 — Chapter II
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W. D. Whitney, Life and Growth of Language, p. 258, says: “No other dialect of the old world so much resembles in structure the American languages.” Cf. Farrar’s Families of Speech, p. 132; Nott and Gliddon’s Indigenous Races, 48; H. de Charencey’s Des affinités de la langue Basque avec les idiomes du Nouveau Monde (Paris and Caen, 1867); and Julien Vinson’s “La langue basque et les langues Américaines” in the Compte Rendu, Congrès des Américanistes (Nancy, 1875), ii. 46. On the other hand, Joly (Man before Metals, 316) says: “Whatever may be said to the contrary, Basque offers no analogy with the American dialects.”