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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... dialects of India and 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 ...
... dialects of India and 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 ...
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... dialects of savage tribes , although , in the absence of a written literature , it is extremely difficult to obtain trustworthy information . But in the few instances where careful observations have been made on this interesting subject ...
... dialects of savage tribes , although , in the absence of a written literature , it is extremely difficult to obtain trustworthy information . But in the few instances where careful observations have been made on this interesting subject ...
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... dialects . The languages of highly civilized nations , on the contrary , become more and more stationary , and seem sometimes almost to lose their power of change . Where there is a classical literature , and where its language is ...
... dialects . The languages of highly civilized nations , on the contrary , become more and more stationary , and seem sometimes almost to lose their power of change . Where there is a classical literature , and where its language is ...
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... dialects , even of such classical languages as Italian and French , entirely eradicated . About twenty of the Italian dialects have been reduced to writing , and made known by the press.1 Champol- lion - Figeac reckons the most ...
... dialects , even of such classical languages as Italian and French , entirely eradicated . About twenty of the Italian dialects have been reduced to writing , and made known by the press.1 Champol- lion - Figeac reckons the most ...
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... dialects ! The Friesian , which is spoken on a small area on the north - western coast of Germany , between the Scheldt and Jutland , and on the islands near the shore , which has been spoken there for at least two thousand years , 2 ...
... dialects ! The Friesian , which is spoken on a small area on the north - western coast of Germany , between the Scheldt and Jutland , and on the islands near the shore , which has been spoken there for at least two thousand years , 2 ...
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