Otomi differs from the other American languages in being monosyllabic rather than polysynthetic, but by inquiring whether the other American tongues may not agree with the Otomi in being more monosyllabic than is generally supposed.
This and the Bengali are conterminous with the monosyllabic languages of the eastern Sub-Himalayan range, and the northern portion of the Transgangetic Peninsula.
The notices hitherto given have applied only to the great political divisions of the variety speaking monosyllabic languages; and have referred to nations of a known and similar degree of civilization.
It has been referred to each class; by some to the monosyllabic tongues of Tibet, or the Burmese empire; by others to the Indian group of dialects and languages.
If so, and if the Raibansi Kooch be so closely allied to them as they are described to be, they must, although speaking a dialect closely allied to the Assam Bengali, be monosyllabic in origin.
The reader is now asked to prepare himself for the transition from languages of a monosyllabic type, to languages other than monosyllabic; and from aptotic tongues to tongues where the inflections are numerous.
The notice, however, of the minor representatives, real or supposed, of the great division of the human race speaking monosyllabic languages now commences.
Or has an original monosyllabic population adopted the Bengali?
That the languages of Upper Assam are those of a variety of rude tribes, speaking a monosyllabic tongue, has already been seen.
These are, comparatively speaking, isolated in their geographical position; whilst the portion of the continent nearest to them is inhabited by races speaking a monosyllabic language.
The populations of South-eastern Asia, Mongol in physiognomy and monosyllabic in speech, have always been considered to form a large and natural, though not always a primary, group.
Bird's on the monosyllabic affinities of the Tamulian languages have an important bearing on this question.
The first shows that the Otomi, as compared with the monosyllabic languages of Asia, en masse, has several words in common.
It should be added, however, that in respect to its monosyllabic character, he maintains that the shortness of many of its words is due to a secondary process; so that the older form of the language was more polysyllabic than the present.
It shews how both may be evolved from monosyllabic tongues like the Chinese or Siamese.
The following affinities occur between the vocabularies published in the present volume and the Malay and Monosyllabic dialects; and they are the result of a very partial collation.
The fact, however, which most affects the place of the Otomi language is the monosyllabic character of other American languages, e.
The Attacapa is one of the pauro-syllabic languages of America, by which I mean languages that, if not monosyllabic after the fashion of the languages of south-eastern Asia, have the appearance of being so.
It was the first time she had ever had any serious conversation with him, the first time he had departed from his shy monosyllabic reserve.
They glared at each other terror-stricken, and pointed to the sun and the four corners of the earth in turn, accompanying their odd gesticulations by a stream of monosyllabic utterances.
Then we would disperse with a monosyllabic "night, boys," all round, and seek our separate sandy couches.
This by no means exhausts the list of devices by which the difficulties of a monosyllabiclanguage are successfully overcome.
Finally, although Chinese is a monosyllabic and non-alphabetic language, a method has been devised, and has been in use since the 3rd century A.
The monosyllabic sound assigned to each charter is applied to so many different meanings, that in its unconnected state it may be said to have no meaning at all.
In the Chinese the beauty of an expression depends entirely on the choice of the character, and not on any selection or arrangement of the monosyllabic sounds.
The unaccented syllables, and unemphatical monosyllabic words, are considered as short syllables.
His last tolerable hit was at the monosyllabic names of the immortal composers his wife had disinterred in his library.
Perhaps you do not have them in the Lutheran Church,' she said; but she did not speak to me again at all, turning her back on me quite this time, and wholly concentrating her attention on the monosyllabic Charlotte.
This was partially due to the impressive monosyllabic advice given in low voices by guides, hostlers and residents of the park.
He was a monosyllabic sort of person, Clancy decided, frugal of words.
Their conversations could hardly afford evidence either way, they had been interchanges of almost monosyllabic utterances.
The three groups of tribes which we have just enumerated speak monosyllabic dialects correlated as regards their vocabularies, at least so far as the words indicating numbers, the parts of the body, trades, etc.
They afford a unique example of an American people speaking an almost monosyllabic language.
In the monosyllabic languages all the words are roots, there are neither suffixes nor prefixes nor any modification of the words, and their relation in a proposition is only given by the respective places which they occupy in it.
They too pointed out objects of interest, but only in their capacity as local guides, and in a monosyllabic manner in complete harmony with the occasion.
In actual use, these five hundred root-words are multiplied to over fifteen hundred by significant variety of intonation; but the entire structure of this still living language is made up of five hundred monosyllabic words.
In the opinion of many philologists, however, “the use of accessory words, in order to impart the required precision to the principal terms, is the path that leads from monosyllabic to the agglutinative state.
Nay, even the isolating type of language has gained a footing, and this in its properly monosyllabic and uninflective form.
For even the strongest advocates of the polysynthetic origin of speech do not venture to question the highly primitive nature of the monosyllabic type.
There is, as will be seen from these examples, no special tendency to the monosyllabic form.
For lack of monosyllabic English words the verbs and movements were dissyllabic words.
With the exception of a few later specified series they were monosyllabic words.
The first change was the substitution of dissyllabic words in the verb and the movement series in the place of monosyllabic words.
Preliminary tests, however, made it highly probable that simple concrete dissyllabic words are not more difficult than monosyllabic in 5 secs.
The material was of the same kind as the words used in the couplet series, being mostly monosyllabic and seldom dissyllabic words.
But—though we have thus explained how there were excuse enough for ever so monosyllabic a reception of introductions, by Jenny Lind, that evening—our own impression of her address and manners was very different from that of the gay Baron.
Trobriand’s account of her monosyllabic incommunicativeness,) we may venture to add, that she received us with a merry inquiry as to which world we came from.
Examples of themonosyllabic nominative occur in A.
Consequently, themonosyllabic form prevailed, in this instance only, for all cases.
But the preterite of accusen was accused; the addition of the full suffix -ede is rare, and chiefly confined to monosyllabic roots.
Mr. Bunsen, it is true, does not hesitate to call the monosyllabic idiom of the Chinese an inorganic formation.
But Betham is as much at home on Olympus as either of the Dutchmen was in Paradise; and with the aid of his monosyllabic glossary, transmutes the celestials into Teagues and Oonahs as fast as his sybilline syllables can be put together.
Katherine enjoyed herself although she never spoke unless spoken to, and then returned monosyllabic answers.
She did not look so sullen either and answered with fluency and ease when she was addressed, and not in the monosyllabic fashion of former days.
I felt ill at ease there; that reserve inspired by an overdrawn sense of propriety paralysed my tongue, and I could only answer in monosyllables the monosyllabic remarks of my host and hostess.
At dinner Leah sat down with me and chattered as usual, without troubling herself about my monosyllabic answers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monosyllabic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
