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 【B1】 a very simple affair in the beginning. 【B2】 ,when we observe the language behavior of 【B3】 we regard as primitive cultures, we find it 【B4】 complicated. It was believed that an Eskimo must have at the tip of his tongue a vocabulary of more than 10 000 words 【B5】 to get along reasonably well, much larger than rite active vocabulary of an average businessman who speaks English. 【B6】 ,these Eskimo words are 【B7】 more highly inflected than 【B8】 of any of the well-known European languages, for a 【B9】 noun can be spoken or written in 【B10】 hundred different forms, each 【B11】 a precise meaning different from that of any other. The 【B12】 of the verbs are ever more 【B13】 .The Eskimo language is, therefore, one of the most difficult in the world to learn, 【B14】 the result that almost no traders or explorers have 【B15】 tried to learn it. 【B16】 ,there 【B17】 grown up, in communication between Eskimos and whites, a jargon. 【B18】 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 【B19】 some are derived from English, Danish, Spanish, Hawaiian and other languages. It is this jargon that is usually 【B50】 by travelers as "the Eskimo language".