Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1917 — Many Indian Languages. [ARTICLE]

Many Indian Languages.

Befoy? you write the government or the Smithsonian institution and request it to send you the Indian name for this or that thing, bear in mind that there is no one American Indian language, says the Popular Science Monthly. On the contrary, there are no less than one thousand languages in the two Americas and practically five hundred distinct Indian languages north of Mexico. Thus, it is impossible to give the Indian word fbr any English equivalent. If you do receive an answer to your inquiry, the word given Is probably chosen from the language of the tribe which once Inhabited the particular part of the country from which the request comes.