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Lapponic   Listen
adjective
Lapponic, Lapponian  adj.  Laplandish; Lappish.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... civilisation of their founders. Thus F. von Schlegel writes: "In those languages which appear to be at the lowest grade of intellectual culture, we frequently observe a very high and elaborate degree of art in their grammatical structure. This is especially the case with the Basque and the Lapponian, and many of the American languages." (70. Quoted by C.S. Wake, 'Chapters on Man,' 1868, p. 101.) But it is assuredly an error to speak of any language as an art, in the sense of its having been elaborately and methodically formed. Philologists now admit that conjugations, declensions, ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin



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