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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
77
CHAPTER
XI.
The
Word
for
Food
in
the
Rhesus
Dialect--The
Rhesus
Sound
of
Alarm--The
Dialect
of
the
White-face--Dolly
Varden,
"Uncle
Remus,"
and
others.
From
a
number
of
sounds
uttered
by
the
Rhesus
monkeys,
I
finally
selected
the
word
which,
for
many
reasons,
I
believed
meant
food,
and
was
the
equivalent
in
meaning
to
that
word
in
the
Capuchin
tongue.
The
phonetic
character
of
the
words
differs
very
widely.
The
sound
uttered
by
the
Rhesus,
as
nearly
as
I
can
represent
it
by
letters,
is
"nqu-u-w."
The
"u"
sound
is
about
the
same
as
in
the
Capuchin
word,
but
on
close
examination
with
the
phonograph
it
appears
to
be
uttered
in
five
syllables
very
slightly
separated,
while
the
ear
only
detects
two.
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