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could never find the least resemblance between this and any other known language[1]; so that after all their researches on this head, they have been obliged to propose mere conjectures, among which mankind are divided according to the particular light in which every one views the subject.
- ↑ Stiernhelm, a learned Swede, thought he discovered in the Finland tongue, many Hungarian words, and still more Greek ones. (Vid. Præfat. in Evangel. Gothica 1671. 4to.) But what the author says above, may be notwithstanding true of the general structure of the language; and Stiernhelm was probably fanciful. T.
