"Polysynthetic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stock after all, and as different from any Old World men: (1) They had low, retreating foreheads. (2) Their hair was black. (3) It was also of a peculiar texture, lank, and cylindrical in section, never wavy. And (4) their languages were polysynthetic, forming a class apart from all others in the world. The peoples of America, if from Asia, must date back to a time when speech ...
— History of the United States, Vol. I (of VI) • E. Benjamin Andrews |
