Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in ... 1861 [and 1863], Volume 1C. Scribner, 1869 |
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Page 43
... Persia , must have sprung from an earlier language , the mother of the whole Indo - European or Aryan family of speech ; if we see how Hebrew , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different impres- sions of one ...
... Persia , must have sprung from an earlier language , the mother of the whole Indo - European or Aryan family of speech ; if we see how Hebrew , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different impres- sions of one ...
Page 44
... Persians ; the language of Virgil into that of Dante , the language of Ulfilas into that of Charlemagne , the language of Charlemagne into that of Goethe . We have reason to believe that the same changes take place with even greater ...
... Persians ; the language of Virgil into that of Dante , the language of Ulfilas into that of Charlemagne , the language of Charlemagne into that of Goethe . We have reason to believe that the same changes take place with even greater ...
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... Persian h ; therefore svasar = hvahar . This becomes cho- har , chor , and cho . Zend , ganha , acc . ganharem , Persian , khaher . Bopp , Comp . Gram . § 35 . - dugti ; gen . dcere = dügtere . 2 Schleicher , Beiträge , b . ii . s . 392 ...
... Persian h ; therefore svasar = hvahar . This becomes cho- har , chor , and cho . Zend , ganha , acc . ganharem , Persian , khaher . Bopp , Comp . Gram . § 35 . - dugti ; gen . dcere = dügtere . 2 Schleicher , Beiträge , b . ii . s . 392 ...
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... Persians speak a language which is neither Semitic , like Arabic , nor Turanian , like Turkish ; it is a branch of the ... Persian and Arabic words , that a common clod from the country under- stands but little of the so - called Osmanli ...
... Persians speak a language which is neither Semitic , like Arabic , nor Turanian , like Turkish ; it is a branch of the ... Persian and Arabic words , that a common clod from the country under- stands but little of the so - called Osmanli ...
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... Persia first famil- iarized the Greeks with the idea that other nations also possessed real languages . Themistocles studied Per- sian , and is said to have spoken it fluently . The ex- pedition of Alexander contributed still more ...
... Persia first famil- iarized the Greeks with the idea that other nations also possessed real languages . Themistocles studied Per- sian , and is said to have spoken it fluently . The ex- pedition of Alexander contributed still more ...
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