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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
135
The
fundamental
sounds
appear
to
be
pure
vowels,
but
faint
traces
of
consonants
are
found
in
many
words,
especially
those
of
low
pitch;
and
since
I
have
been
able
to
develop
certain
consonant
sounds
from
a
vowel
basis,
the
conclusion
forces
itself
upon
me
that
the
consonant
elements
of
human
speech
are
developed
from
a
vowel
basis.
This
opinion
is
further
confirmed
by
the
fact
that
the
sounds
produced
by
the
types
of
the
animal
kingdom
lower
than
the
monkey,
appear
to
be
more
like
the
sounds
of
pipe
instruments;
and
as
we
rise
in
the
scale,
the
vocal
organs
appear
to
become
somewhat
more
complex,
and
capable
of
varying
these
sounds
so
as
to
give
the
effect
of
consonants,
which
very
much
extends
the
vocal
scope.
The
present
state
of
the
speech
of
monkeys
appears
to
have
been
reached
by
development
from
a
lower
form.
[Sidenote:
EACH
RACE
HAS
ITS
PECULIAR
TONGUE]
Each
race
or
kind
of
monkey
has
its
own
peculiar
tongue,
slightly
shaded
into
dialects,
and
the
radical
sounds
do
not
appear
to
have
the
same
meaning
in
different
tongues.
The
phonetic
character
of
their
speech
is
equally
as
high
as
that
of
children
in
a
like
state
of
mental
development;
and
seems
to
obey
the
same
laws
of
phonetic
growth,
change,
and
decay
as
human
speech.
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