Lectures on the Science of Language ...Longman, 1861 - 399 pages |
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agglutinative ancient Anglo-Saxon animals Arabic Armenia Arya Aryan family Aryan languages Asia auxiliary verb Brahmans branch brutes Burnouf called Celtic Celts century Chinese classification common origin declension derived dialects Dionysius Thrax discover distinct distinguished doubt elements empire English express family of speech Finnic formation French genealogical genitive German Gothic grammarians grammatical forms Greek and Latin growth guage Hebrew Hervas High-German human speech idea India inflectional instance Italian Latin Lectures Leibniz likewise literary language literature look Low-German means modern Mongolic nations nature never nouns origin of language Persian philosophers phonetic corruption plough plural preserved primitive pronouns Provençal race recognised Roman Rome Russian Samoyedic Sanskrit Saxon scholars science of language sense Slavonic speak spoken stage Strabo supposed Tataric terminations Teutonic thou tion translated tribes Tungusic Turanian Turanian family Turanian languages Turkic Turkish Ulfilas Veda verb vowels words Zend Zend-avesta Zoroaster