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(_a_) MASAI. / (_b_) KI-ČAGA, KI-TAVEITA, &c. (BANTU LANGUAGES).
The interest taken in African languages is a newly awakened but a growing one. The work of Bleek, Lepsius, Müller, Steere, and Schön; of Barth, Koelle, Krapf, and Reinisch-not to mention many other earnest workers in this freshly opened field, who each contribute their quota to our present sum of knowledge-has at length begun to meet with due appreciation, and though many of these patient grammarians and students of unrecognized forms of speech have passed away, yet in almost every case their work has begun to acquire a notoriety and a value that neither they nor their publishers hoped for when the grammars or vocabularies or handbooks were first issued to an unheeding public.