Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ... 1861 [and 1863].C. Scribner andcompany, 1866 |
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... Aryan family of speech ; if we see how Hebrew , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different impres- sions of one and the same common type , and must all have flowed from the same source , the original lan ...
... Aryan family of speech ; if we see how Hebrew , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different impres- sions of one and the same common type , and must all have flowed from the same source , the original lan ...
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... Aryan names for two , dvi , and ten , dasati . Such is the virulence of this phonetic change , that it will some- times eat away the whole body of a word , and leave nothing behind but decayed fragments . Thus , sister , which in ...
... Aryan names for two , dvi , and ten , dasati . Such is the virulence of this phonetic change , that it will some- times eat away the whole body of a word , and leave nothing behind but decayed fragments . Thus , sister , which in ...
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... Aryan inhabitants of Italy . It was the dialect of Latium , in Latium the dialect of Rome , at Rome the dialect of the patricians . It was fixed by Livius Andronicus , Ennius , Nævius , Cato , and Lucretius , polished by the Scipios ...
... Aryan inhabitants of Italy . It was the dialect of Latium , in Latium the dialect of Rome , at Rome the dialect of the patricians . It was fixed by Livius Andronicus , Ennius , Nævius , Cato , and Lucretius , polished by the Scipios ...
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... , Slavonic , the Hellenic , Italic , Iranic , and Indic classes constitute the great Indo- European or Aryan family of speech . In the Eng- lish dictionary the student of the science of language can detect , by his own tests , Celtic ,
... , Slavonic , the Hellenic , Italic , Iranic , and Indic classes constitute the great Indo- European or Aryan family of speech . In the Eng- lish dictionary the student of the science of language can detect , by his own tests , Celtic ,
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... Aryan family of speech . A large infusion of Persian words thus found its way into Arabic , and through Arabic into Turkish ; and the result is that at the present moment the Turkish language , as spoken by the higher ranks at Constanti ...
... Aryan family of speech . A large infusion of Persian words thus found its way into Arabic , and through Arabic into Turkish ; and the result is that at the present moment the Turkish language , as spoken by the higher ranks at Constanti ...
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