No. II.-GENEALOGICAL TABLE OF THE SEMITIC FAMILY OF LANGUAGES.

DEAD LANGUAGES

CLASSES

Chaldee (Masora, Talmud, Targum, Biblical Chaldee)

Syria

the Jews

Abyssinia (Amharic, Tigre, Ekhili) Ethiopic or Geez

Phenician and Carthaginian Inscriptions Moabites

Hebraic

Thamudic Inscriptions, Himyaritic Inscriptions

Arabic

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Southern

Able, 86.

Abraham, language of, 316.
Abul Fazl, the minister, 205 n.
Abul Walid, or Rabbi Jonâ, author
of the first Hebrew grammar,
89 n.
Abu Rihan al Birûni, his work on

Hindu literature and sciences,
201, 202 n. See Albirûni.
Abu Saleh, his translations from
Sanskrit into Arabic, 202.
Abu Zacariyya 'Hayyudj, on He-
brew roots, 89 n.
Abyssinian language, ancient and
modern, 323, 449.

Academy, New, doctrines of the,

embraced in Rome, 112.
Accadian views on the Sun and
Moon, 5. See Akkadian.
Accommodation Question, 211.
Accusative, formation of the, in
Chinese, 127.

Achæmenian dynasty, inscriptions
of the, 275, 277, 281.

Achos, 524.

Active, 117.

Adam, book of, 318.

Adelung's Mithridates, 154, 158,
229.

Adjectives, formation of, in Tibetan,
Dravidian, Sanskrit,Greek, &c.,

120 n.

in Chinese, 128.

Adverb, formation of, in Chinese,
128.

French, 52.

Elius Stilo, his lectures in Rome
on Latin grammar, 115, 115 n.
Ærend, 363.

Æternus, 402.

Affinity, indications of true, in the
animal and vegetable worlds,
16, 17.

Affixes in Turanian languages, 404.
Afghanistan, language of, 287.
Africa, South, dialects of, 69, 449.

Lepsius, on the languages of,
450.

African language, an imaginary,
339.

Agau dialect, 449, 451.

Âge, history of the French word,

402.
Agglutination in Turanian languages,

401.

rudimentary traces of, in Chinese,
392, 461, 462.

- the only intelligible means by
which language acquires gram-
matical organisation, 470.
Agglutinative languages, 47, 51,
391, 402, 453, 469.

rudimentary traces of inflec-
tion in, 462.