ABSTRACT
It is remarkable that these people of Tanna speak most certainly two if no more languages among themselves. They often said us the names of things in the Language of Annatoml & Inonan or Footoona which is nearly related to the Language spoken in the Friendly Isles of Eaoowe, Tonga-Tabu & Anamocka, & allways said me it was thus called at Inonan or Footoona, but often they gave us likewise the names in the T<3««a-Language & said it was thus called in Tanna. Whenever I had an opportunity of hearing both Vocables & the Language to which each belonged I never failed
4 5 i 2 j to observe it in my Vocabulary. The Numerals they gave me2in 3 languages. One is similar to the way of counting in all the South Sea Isles, Si goes to 10. The other two kinds of counting go no farther than five; from whence they set out again, & repeat the same numerals in case they want to count more than 5.3 If I am
and certain ingredients of the forested Tuetonic past' No one would have been more surprised at that remark than the hard-headed theologian from Halle, J, R. Forster, trained in the rationalist determinist theology and philosophy of the German Enlightenment — in the traditions of G. W Leibniz, Christian Wolfff S. J. Baumgarten and J. D, Michaelis and so on.
