Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February, March, April and May, 1863, Volume 2C. Scribner, 1865 - 622 pages |
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Page 20
... likewise a very prominent place for the African idioms , in the general history of human speech . " It is perhaps not too much to say , " he writes ( Preface , page viii ) , " that similar results may at present be expected from a ...
... likewise a very prominent place for the African idioms , in the general history of human speech . " It is perhaps not too much to say , " he writes ( Preface , page viii ) , " that similar results may at present be expected from a ...
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... likewise sas - at , and tan - vat ( sic ) . It would be impossible to form ablatives in ǎt ( as ) from verbal bases raised by the vikaranas of the special tenses , nor would the ablative be so appropriate a case as the locative , for ...
... likewise sas - at , and tan - vat ( sic ) . It would be impossible to form ablatives in ǎt ( as ) from verbal bases raised by the vikaranas of the special tenses , nor would the ablative be so appropriate a case as the locative , for ...
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... likewise noted those permutations which take place occasionally only . On the strength of these phonetic laws once estab- lished , words which have hardly one single letter in common have been traced back with perfect cer- tainty to ...
... likewise noted those permutations which take place occasionally only . On the strength of these phonetic laws once estab- lished , words which have hardly one single letter in common have been traced back with perfect cer- tainty to ...
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... likewise mentions double consonants in the Chinese as spoken in Co- chin - China , namely , bl , dy , ml , ty , tr ; also f , r , s . As final consonants he gives ch , k , m , n , ng , p , t . - P. 296 . One of them says : from Chinese ...
... likewise mentions double consonants in the Chinese as spoken in Co- chin - China , namely , bl , dy , ml , ty , tr ; also f , r , s . As final consonants he gives ch , k , m , n , ng , p , t . - P. 296 . One of them says : from Chinese ...
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... likewise in Siamese and Burmese ) , these modula- tions have a much wider application . Thus in An- namitic , ba pronounced with the grave accent means a lady , an ancestor ; pronounced with the sharp ac- cent it means the favorite of a ...
... likewise in Siamese and Burmese ) , these modula- tions have a much wider application . Thus in An- namitic , ba pronounced with the grave accent means a lady , an ancestor ; pronounced with the sharp ac- cent it means the favorite of a ...
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