People thinking about the origin of language for the first time usually arrive at the conclusion that it developed gradually as a system of grunts, hisses and cries and【C1】_____a very simple affair【C2】__.【C3】__, when we observe the language behaviour of【C4】__we regard as primitive cultures, we find it【C5】_____complicated.

It was believed that an Eskimo must have at the tip of his tongue a vocabulary of more than 10,000 words【C6】_____to get along reasonably well, much larger than the【C7】__vocabulary of an average businessman who speaks English.【C8】__these Eskimo words are far more highly inflected than【C9】__of any of the well-known European languages, for a【C10】__noun can be spoken or written in【C11】__hundred different forms, each 【C12】__a precise meaning different from【C13】__of any other. The forms of the verbs are even more【C14】__. The Eskimo language is,【C15】__one of the most difficult in the world to learn,【C16】__the result that almost no traders or explorers have【C17】_____tried to learn it.

【C18】_____, there has grown up, in communication between Eskimos and whites, a jargon【C19】__to the pidgin English used in Old China, with a vocabulary of from 300 to 600 uninflected words. Most of them are derived from Eskimo but some are derived from English, Daish, Spanish, Hawaiian and other languages. It is this jargon that is usually【C20】_____by travellers as “the Eskimo language”.

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