The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1821]. Our languages and signs. CUL-DAR271.1.10. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR271 contains juvenilia and Darwin family letters, c.1818-1959.

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Our languages and signs

Whistle. — Come,

Trumpet.— Lie still,

One pull, — come,

Two pulls, — Lie still

Vaults, of which very few remain,

I { iab,
T { cads,
T {, caf,
T {, cag,
T {, cah,
T { cac,

Words

The secret place,

Loruw, / I will come,

I will put, / alibasso zo,

Alibasso so, /I will, go

alibassa, ro

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Yes, zo ) Nacht tree, Mocho,

Hunt gross; ) Lie down cabin

Alphabet

A B C D E F G H I J K L

[symbols]

M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y

[symbols]

Derved from this

[sketches]

Number

Year Month Days

[sketch] the same for the Months and Days

For practise

This year I wrote this [sketch] find out

[sketches]

only for the year [sketches] an new [illeg] [sketch] out of mine head [sketch]

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