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148 GENERAL REMARKS
The Lapponic tongue has been fo little attended to by foreign-
ers, the miflionary obferves, that it 1s hardly underftood even by
the Norwegians bordering on Lapland; although it is not lefs
worthy of being reduced to fixed grammatical rules, and rendered
intelligible to other nations, than the other hving languages of
Europe. It is particularly recommended by an elegant brevity,
which expreffes in one word what in other languages would re-
quire feveral. For example, my Jittle loaf is exprefled by the fingle
Lapponic word Jachatzhiam.. This term Jachatzhiam is analyfed
in the following manner: it is made up of the noun fubftantive
laibe, a cake or loaf; the diminutive afz; and the pronoun am,
which fignifies mine: The Lapponic admits of a commutation of
confonants, namely of the labials B and P, B and M, F and V;
the gutturals G and K; the dentals S and Z; the linguals D and
N, D and T;; the labial letter F, and the guttural K, are alfo ex-
changed with one another: the letters gv, joined together in the
fame fyllable, are pronounced with an afpiration.
The miffionary, in farther illuftration of the genius and charac-
ter of the Lapponic, goes at very confiderable length through all the
parts of fpeech of which it is compofed, viz. noun, pronoun, verb,
prepofition, and the particle. There are but few of my readers,
I prefume, who would thank me for following that author
through the whole of his differtations on the elements of the Lap-
landifh tongue ; and I fhall content myfelf with the ftatement of
a few particulars that probably will not be unacceptable.
The firft ten numbers in the Laplandifh table of notation are—
2 Auft
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