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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... Semitic race ; and if we add to these two , the Aryan and Semitic , at least one more well - estab- lished class of languages , the Turanian , comprising the dialects of the nomad races scattered over Central and Northern Asia , the ...
... Semitic race ; and if we add to these two , the Aryan and Semitic , at least one more well - estab- lished class of languages , the Turanian , comprising the dialects of the nomad races scattered over Central and Northern Asia , the ...
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... Semitic family , closely allied to Hebrew and Syriac . Together with the Koran , and their law and religion , the Turks learned from the Arabs , their conquerors , many of the arts and sciences connected with a more advanced stage of ...
... Semitic family , closely allied to Hebrew and Syriac . Together with the Koran , and their law and religion , the Turks learned from the Arabs , their conquerors , many of the arts and sciences connected with a more advanced stage of ...
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... in 1593 , in fifty lan- guages , by the same author ( " Oratio Dominica L. diversis linguis , " cura H Megiseri : Francofurti , 1593 , 8vo . ) . guages were most intimately related to each other , and STUDY OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES . 131.
... in 1593 , in fifty lan- guages , by the same author ( " Oratio Dominica L. diversis linguis , " cura H Megiseri : Francofurti , 1593 , 8vo . ) . guages were most intimately related to each other , and STUDY OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES . 131.
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... Semitic , the Hellenic , Italic , and Teutonic : he derives , however , Greek from Hebrew . I. I. Scaliger , in his " Diatriba de Europæorum Linguis " ( Opuscula varia : Parisiis , 1610 ) , p . 119 , distinguishes eleven classes : Latin ...
... Semitic , the Hellenic , Italic , and Teutonic : he derives , however , Greek from Hebrew . I. I. Scaliger , in his " Diatriba de Europæorum Linguis " ( Opuscula varia : Parisiis , 1610 ) , p . 119 , distinguishes eleven classes : Latin ...
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... Semitic scholars of the seventeenth century , yet this partial advance became in other respects an impediment . The purely scientific interest in arranging languages according to their characteristic features was lost sight of , and ...
... Semitic scholars of the seventeenth century , yet this partial advance became in other respects an impediment . The purely scientific interest in arranging languages according to their characteristic features was lost sight of , and ...
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