Chapter 2
1347THE TREE OF LANGUAGE said: China, India, Europe and America, the four branches of the earth, languages from one root. What was the tree, and where did it grow, that none can find it?
Where does the submerged continent, the forgotten world, lie? What place did struggling mortals escape from, to float to far-off continents and tell the tale, in all lands, of a mighty flood or deluge?
PAN, (of language) the first guttural sounds approximating words.
POIT, beginning of labial word- sounds.
GAU.
HIUT, first acquiesced language.
FUS, written word-signs.
CHINE, monosyllabic.
YI-HA, combination words.
ABRAM, first words; original text.
FONECE, following the sound, but not the signs (writing).
AHAM, amalgamation.
EBRA, the old; the sacred.
VEDE.
SANSCRIT, mixture.
ARABA (first Egyptian also), teeth and thorax.
ALGONQUIN, after the sacred name, E- Go-Quim.
GREEK, LATIN, FRENCH, SPANISH, GERMAN, ENGLISH, etc.
KOSMON. Chapter 2 Language Tree