S66 Oi THE ARABIC LANGUAGE, authors, which were translated into the Arabic language, when Arabian literature was in its zenith, and have ever since been confined to some private libraries in the cities of the interior of Africa, and in Arabia.

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Arabic of the western Arabs, which, with little variation, is spoken throughout all the finest districts of North Africa, I shall proceed to say a few words respecting the other languages spoken north of Sahara : these are the Berebber and its dialects, viz. the Zayan and Girwan, and Ait Amor ; the Shelluh of Suse and South Atlas, all which, though latterly supposed by some learned men to be the same, differ in many respects ; any one possessing a knowledge of the Berebber language might, with little difficulty, make himself understood by the Zayan of Atlas, the Girwan, or the Ait Amor ; but the Shelluh is a diflferent language, and each so different from the Arabic, that there is not the smallest resemblance, as the following specimen will demonstrate : BEREBBER. SHELLUH. ARABIC ENGLISH. Tumtoot Tayelt Ishira A girl Ajurode Ayel Ishire A boy Askan Tarousa Hajar A thing Aram Algrom Jimmel Camel Tamtute Tamraut Murrah A woman Ishiar Issemg'h L'Abd A slave Aouli Izimer Kibsh A sheep Taddert Tikimie Dar House