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== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_68522" /> ==
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_68522" /> ==
<p> The name of most of the races, with their languages, that occupy [[Africa]] from 6° N. lat. to 20° S.; are negroid rather than negro, being in several respects superior; the name, however, suggests rather a linguistic than an ethnological distinction, the language differing radically from all other known forms of speech—the inflection, for one thing, chiefly initial, not final. </p>
<p> The name of most of the races, with their languages, that occupy [[Africa]] from 6° N. lat. to 20° S.; are negroid rather than negro, being in several respects superior; the name, however, suggests rather a linguistic than an ethnological distinction, the language differing radically from all other known forms of speech—the inflection, for one thing, chiefly initial, not final. </p>

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The Nuttall Encyclopedia [1]

The name of most of the races, with their languages, that occupy Africa from 6° N. lat. to 20° S.; are negroid rather than negro, being in several respects superior; the name, however, suggests rather a linguistic than an ethnological distinction, the language differing radically from all other known forms of speech—the inflection, for one thing, chiefly initial, not final.

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