ABDU-L-KADIR MALUK, MULLA, Shah of Badáún, his general his- tory of India, and other works, 151 note.
Abhira, or Abhira, at the mouth of the Indus, 204.
Abiria, the, of Ptolemy, 204. Ablative, the, in Chinese, 119 note. Abraham, the language of, 278. Abu Saleh, his translation from San- skrit into Arabic, 150. Abyssinian language, ancient and modern, 281. Academy, New, doctrines of the,
embraced in Rome, 107. Accusative, formation of the, in Chinese, 118 note.
Achæmenian dynasty, inscriptions of the, 210.
Adelung, his Mithridates, 142. Adjectives, formation of, in Tibetan,
Anquetil Duperron, his translation of the Persian translation of the Upanishads into French, 154.
his translation of the works of Zoroaster, 168, 206. Apollo, temple of, at Rome, 102. AR, the root, various ramifications of, 252.
Arabic, influence of, over the Turk- ish language, 83. ascendency of, in Palestine and Syria, 281.
original seat of Arabic, 281. ancient Himyaritic inscriptions, 281.
earliest literary documents in Arabic, 281.
relation of Arabic to Hebrew, 281.
Aramaic division of Semitic lan- guages, 276.
two dialects of, 276.
Ariana, the, of Greek geographers,
Aryan, origin and gradual spreading of the word Arya, 236. original seat of the Aryans, 238. the Aryan and Semitic the only families of speech deserving that title, 282.
genealogical table, 394, 395. Asia Minor, origin of the Turks of,
Asiatic Society, foundation of the, at Calcutta, 158.
Asoka, King, his rock inscriptions, 146.
Assyria, various forms of the name, 247.
Astrology, causes of the extinction of the science, 19.
Astronomy, origin of the word, 16. the Ptolemæan system, al- though wrong, important to science, 26.
Auramazda, of the cuneiform in- scriptions, 207. See Ormuzd. Auxentius on Ulfilas, 181-186 note.
BABER, his Indian empire, 299. Babylonia, literature of, 278.
- probability of the recovery of, from the cuneiform inscrip- tions, 278.
Barabas tribe, in the steppes be- tween the Irtish and the Ob, 304. Barbarians, the, of the Greeks, 91.
seemed to have possessed great- er facility for acquiring lan- guages than either Greeks or Romans, 94.
the term Barbarian as used by the Greeks and Romans, 127. unfortunate influence of the term, 127.
Bashkirs, race of the, in the Altaic mountains, 303.
Basil, St., his denial that God had created the names of all things, 40 note.
Baziane tribe, in the Caucasus, 303. Beaver, the, sagacity of, 24. Behar, Pâli once the popular dialect of, 146.
Beowolf, the ancient English epic of, 177.
Berber, dialects of Northern Africa, origin of the, 282.
Berners, Juliana, on the expressions proper for certain things, 72. Berosus, his study and cultivation of the Greek language, 94. his history of Babylon, 95. his knowledge of the cuneiform inscriptions, 95.
Bible, number of obsolete words and senses in the English translation of 1611, 45.
Bibliandro, his work on language, 131 note.
Birúni, Abu Rihan al, 150.
his "Tarikhu-l-Hind," 150. Bishop and sceptic derived from the same root, 257.
Boëthius, Song of, age of the, 196. Bohemian, oldest specimens of, 201. Bonaparte, Prince L., his collection of English dialects, 70. Booker's " 'Scripture and Prayer- Book Glossary" referred to, 45. Books, general destruction of, in China in 213, B. C. 227. Bopp, Francis, his great work, 166.
results of his Comparative Grammar," 234. Botany, origin of the word, 15.
the Linnæan system, although imperfect, important to sci-
Brahman, the highest being, known through speech, 88. Brahmans, their deification of lan- guage, 87.
their early achievements in grammatical analysis, 88. difficulties of Alexander in con- versing with them, 93. Brahmanas, the, on language, 87. Brennus, 199.
Brown, Rev. Mr. on the dialects of the Burmese, 63. Brutes, faculties of, 351.
instinct and intellect, 353. language the difference between man and brute, 354.
the old name given to brutes, 379. Buddhism, date of its introduction into China, 147.
Bulgarian Kingdom on the Danube,
- language and literature, 200. Bulgaric branch of the Finnic class of languages, 319.
Bulgarian tribes and dialects, 319. Buriates, dialects of the, new phase of grammatical life of the, 64. Burmese language and literature, 63. dialects, 63.
Burnouf, Eugène, his studies of Zend, 168, 206.
and of cuneiform inscriptions, 168.
CESAR, JULIUS, publication of his work "De analogia," 110. invented the term ablative, 110. Carneades forbidden by Cato to lec- ture at Rome, 109.
Carthaginian language, closely allied to Hebrew, 280.
Case, history of the word, 111. Cases, formation of, in the Aryan languages, 218.
Cassius, Dionysius, of Utica, his translation of the agricultural work of Mago, 95 note. Castor and Pollux, worship of, in Italy, 102.
Castren on the Mongolian dialects,
Cat, origin of the word, 365.
Catherine the Great of Russia, her "Comparative Dictionary," 143. Cato, his history of Rome in Latin, 104.
his acquisition of the Greek language in his old age, 106. reasons for his opposition to everything Greek, 106. Caucasus, tribes of the, 303. Celtic language, substantive exist- ence of, 79.
Celtic, a branch of the Indo-Euro-
pean family of languages, 198. Celts, their former political autono- my, 198.
Chaldee, in what it consisted, 276. fragments in Ezra, 276.
language of the Targums, 277. literature of Babylon and Nin- eveh, 278.
the modern Mendaïtes or Naso- reaus, 279.
Changes, historical, affecting every variety of language, 44. rapid changes in the languages of savage tribes, 44.
Changes, historical, words or senses obsolete in English since 1611,
smaller changes, 45. grammatical changes, 46. laws of, in language, 73. Children, probable influence of the language of, on the gradual disap- pearance of irregular conjugations and declensions, 75. Chili, language of, 293 note. China, date of the introduction of Buddhism into, 147.
Chinese Buddhist pilgrims to India, 149.
conquered by the Mongols, 299. Chinese language, ancient, no trace of grammar in, 86, 117. notes by M. Stanislas Julien, on Chinese substantives and adjectives, 118 note.
Classical, or literary languages, origin of, 65.
stagnation and inevitable decay of, 68.
Classification, in the physical sci- ences, 24.
object of classification, 27. Colchis, dialects of, according to Pliny, 61.
Conjugation, most of the termina- tions of, demonstrative roots, 270. Constantinople, taking of, 308. Copernicus, causes which led to the
discovery of his system, 29. Cornish, last person who spoke, 80. Cosmopolitan Club, 107.
Crates of Pergamus, his visit to Rome, 109.
his public lectures, there on grammar, 109.
formation of the locative in Cuckoo, the word, 361.
and of the instrumental, 218. number of roots in Chinese, 265. number of words in the Chinese dictionary, obsolete, rare, and in use, 265 note.
no analysis required to discover its component parts, 272. mode of using a predicative root in, 268.
roots in Chinese, 287.
the parts of speech determined in Chinese by the position of the word in a sentence, 288. rudimentary traces of agglu- tination in Chinese, 329. imitative sounds in, 366 note. list of Chinese interjections, 369
natural selection of roots in, 386.
Chingis-Khán, founds the Mongo- lian empire, 296. Christianity, humanizing influence of, 128.
Chudic branch of the Finnic lan- guages, 317.
Chudic, the national epic of the Finns, 317.
Cicero, his provincial Latin, 67.
quoted as an authority on gram- matical questions, 109. Cæsar's De analogia dedicated to Cicero, 110.
Cuneiform inscriptions, the, deci- phered by Burnouf, 168. importance of the discovery of the inscriptions of Darius and Xerxes, 206.
progress in deciphering. 278. letter from Sir H. Rawlinson quoted, 278.
D, origin of the letter, in forming English preterites, 231. Dacian language, the ancient, 126 note, 195 note.
Dame, origin of the word, 226. Danish language, growth of the, 71,
Darius, claimed for himself an Aryan descent, 241.
Dative, case in Greek, 221.
in Chinese, 118 note. Daughter, origin of the word, 57. Decay, phonetic, one of the processes which comprise the growth of language, 51.
instances of phonetic decay, 52-54.
Declension, most of the terminations of, demonstrative roots, 270. Dello, dell, origins of the Italian, 75. Democritus, his travels, 94. Dialect, what is meant by, 58. Dialects, Italian, 58, 69.
Dialects, French, 59. Modern Greek, 58. Friesian, 59. English, 60.
the feeders rather than the channels of a literary lan- guage, 60, 70.
Grimm on the origin of dialects in general, 60.
difficulty in tracing the history of dialects, 61. American dialects, 63. Burmese, 63.
of the Ostiakes, 63. Mongolian, 64. Southern Africa, 64. class dialects, 66.
unbounded resources of dialects,
dialectical growth beyond the control of individuals, 74. Dictionary, Comparative, of Cath- erine the Great of Russia, 143. Did, origin of, as a preterite, 233. Diez, Professor, his "Comparative Grammar of the Six Romance Dialects," 196.
Dionysius Thrax, the author of the first practical Greek grammar, 100. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, on the Pelasgi, 125 note. Discussion, etymology of, 52. Dorpat dialect of Esthonian, 318. Du, origin of the French, 74. Dual, the, first recognized by Zeno- dotus, 99.
Dumaresq, Rev. Daniel, his "Com- parative Vocabulary of Eastern Languages," 143.
Duret, Claude, his work on lan- guage, 132 note. Dutch language, work of Goropius written to prove that it was the language spoken in Para- dise, 135. age of Dutch, 178.
EARL, origin of the title, 226. Earth, guess of Philolaus as to its motion round the sun, 29. Eddas, the two, 191.
the name Edda, 194 note. Egypt, number of words in the ancient vocabulary of, 266.
Egyptian language, family to which it is referable, 282.
Elder, origin of the word, 226 Elements, constituent, of language, 250.
English language, changes in the, since the translation of the Bible in 1611, 46.
richness of the vocabulary of the dialects of, 60.
real sources of the English lan- guage, 69.
Prince L. Bonaparte's collection of English dialects, 70. the English language Teutonic, 80.
full of words derived from the most distant sources, 84. proportion of Saxon to Norman words, 84.
tests proving the Teutonic or- igin of the English language,
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