CHAPTER XIX

Limitations of speech--Differences of dialect--Language-groups--Tribal names--Difficulties of languages--Method of transliteration--Need of a common medium--Ventral ejaculations--Construction--Pronouns as suffix or prefix--Negatives--Gesture language--Numbers and reckoning--Indefinite measure--Time--No writing, signs, nor personal marks--Tribal calls--Drum-language code--Conversational repetitions--Noisy talkers--Ventriloquists--Falsetto voice--Conversational etiquette 246