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THE AMERICAN INDIAN
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Fig. 87. Linguistic Stocks in South America. A. E. Chamberlain
along with it, in the main, a few fortis consonants. These suggest that a study of phonetic distribution will not only reveal some definite New World characters, but show localized geographical types as well. From a much broader point of view,