ABD

ABDU-L-KADIR MALUK, MULLA,
Shah of Badáún, his general his-
tory of India, and other works, 151
note.

Abhira, or Âbhira, 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,
113 note.

in Chinese, 119 note.
Elius Stilo, Lucius, his lectures in
Rome, on Latin grammar, 109.
Affinity, indications of true, in the
animal and vegetable world, 26,

27.

note.

BER

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,
306.

Asiatic Society, foundation of the,
at Calcutta, 158.

Asoka, King, his rock inscriptions
146.

Assyria, various forms of the name,
217.

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.

BER

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 Praver
Book Glossary" referred to, 45.
Books, general destruction of, in
China in 213, в 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-
ence, 26.

Brahman, the highest being, known
through speech, 88.
Brahmans, their deification of lan-
guage, 87.

their early achievements ia
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, dite of its introduction
into China. 147.

Bulgarian Kingdom on the Danube,
319.

language and literature, 200.
Bulgaric branch of the Fiunic class
of languages, 319.

CHA

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 ablatice, 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,
61.

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 Mendaites or Naso-
reaus, 279.

Changes, historical, affecting every
variety of language. 44.
rapid changes in the languages
of savage tribes, 44.

CHA

Changes, historical, words or senses
obsolete in English since 1611,

45.

smaller changes, 45.
grammatical changes, 46.
faws 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.
formation of the locative in
Chinese, 218.

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

DIA

Class dialects, 66.
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.
Cuckoo, the word, 361.
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.

DIA

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, 61.
class dialects, 66.

unbounded resources of dialects,
71.

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 gramınar, 100.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, on the
Pela-gi, 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.

Dumares, 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.

21.

Ephraem Syrus, 276 note.
Epicharmus, his philosophy trans-
lated to Latin by Ennius, 105.
Epicurus, doctrines of, embraced, in
Rome, 107.
Erin, Pictet's derivation of the
name, 245.

Mr. Whitley Stokes's remarks
on the word Erin, 245 note.
Espiègle, origin of the word, 260.
Esths, or Esthonians, their language,
318.

dialects of, 318.
Estienne, Henry, his grammatical
labors anticipated by the
Brahmans, 500 B. C. 88.
his work on language, 131

note.