fathers' language?"), whilst asserting that Hebrew is derived from Dutch. The Frenchman Éloi Johanneau claimed in 1818 () that the Celtic language is the oldest, and the mother of all others. In 1759, Joseph de Guignes theorized () that the Chinese and Egyptians were related, the former being a colony of the latter. In 1885, Edward Tregear (The Aryan Maori) compared the Maori and "Aryan" languages. , in his 1941 , claimed that the Bantu languages of Africa are descended from Latin, coining the French linguistic term in doing so. Just as Egyptian is related to Brabantic, following Becanus in his Hieroglyphica, still using comparative methods. The first practitioners of comparative linguistics were not universally acclaimed: upon reading Becanus' book, Scaliger wrote, "never did I read greater nonsense", and Leibniz coined the term goropism (from Goropius) to designate a far-sought, ridiculous etymology. There have also been claims that humans are descended from other, non-primate animals, with use of the voice referred to as the main point of comparison. Jean-Pierre Brisset (, around 1900) believed and asserted that humans descended from the frog, by linguistic means, in that the croaking of frogs sounds similar to spoken French; he held that the French word , 'dwelling', derived from the word , 'water'. See also Comparative method Comparative literature Contrastive analysis Contrastive linguistics Glottochronology Historical linguistics Intercontinental Dictionary Series Lexicostatistics Mass comparison Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics Pseudoscientific language comparison Quantitative comparative linguistics Sound law References Bibliography August Schleicher: Compendium der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen. (Kurzer Abriss der indogermanischen Ursprache, des Altindischen, Altiranischen, Altgriechischen, Altitalischen, Altkeltischen, Altslawischen, Litauischen und Altdeutschen.) (2 vols.) Weimar, H. Boehlau (1861/62); reprinted by Minerva GmbH, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Karl Brugmann, Berthold Delbrück, Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen (1886–1916). Raimo Anttila, Historical and Comparative Linguistics (Benjamins, 1989) Theodora Bynon, Historical Linguistics (Cambridge University Press, 1977) Richard D. Janda and Brian D. Joseph (Eds), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics (Blackwell, 2004) Roger Lass, Historical linguistics and language change. (Cambridge University Press, 1997) Winfred P. Lehmann, Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Holt, 1962) Joseph Salmons, Bibliography of historical-comparative linguistics. Oxford Bibliographies Online. R.L. Trask (ed.), Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001) Historical linguistics