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... language itself becomes the sole object of scientific inquiry . Dialects which
have never produced any literature at all , the jargons of savage tribes , the clicks
of the Hottentots , and the vocal modulations of the Indo - Chinese are as
important ...
... language itself becomes the sole object of scientific inquiry . Dialects which
have never produced any literature at all , the jargons of savage tribes , the clicks
of the Hottentots , and the vocal modulations of the Indo - Chinese are as
important ...
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Thus Roome and chaney , layloc and goold , have but lately been driven from the
stage by Rome , china , 1 Lectures on the English Language , by G. P. Marsh :
New York , 1860 , p . 263 and 630. These lectures embody the result of much ...
Thus Roome and chaney , layloc and goold , have but lately been driven from the
stage by Rome , china , 1 Lectures on the English Language , by G. P. Marsh :
New York , 1860 , p . 263 and 630. These lectures embody the result of much ...
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In Chinese , for instance , ten is expressed by shi . It would be impossible to
change shă in the slightest way without making it unfit to express ten . If instead of
sh we pronounced tíī , this would mean seven , but not ten . But now , suppose
we ...
In Chinese , for instance , ten is expressed by shi . It would be impossible to
change shă in the slightest way without making it unfit to express ten . If instead of
sh we pronounced tíī , this would mean seven , but not ten . But now , suppose
we ...
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We should in Chinese take eúl , which is two , put it before shi , and say eúl - shī ,
twenty . The same caution which applied to shă , applies again to eúl - shi . As
soon as you change it , by adding or dropping a single letter , it is no longer
twenty ...
We should in Chinese take eúl , which is two , put it before shi , and say eúl - shī ,
twenty . The same caution which applied to shă , applies again to eúl - shi . As
soon as you change it , by adding or dropping a single letter , it is no longer
twenty ...
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... in sound , but in character between two such words as the Chinese eúl - shi ,
two - ten , or twenty , and those mere cripples of words which we meet with in
Sanskrit , Greek , and Latin . In Chinese there is neither too much , nor too little .
... in sound , but in character between two such words as the Chinese eúl - shi ,
two - ten , or twenty , and those mere cripples of words which we meet with in
Sanskrit , Greek , and Latin . In Chinese there is neither too much , nor too little .
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| Title | Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Volume 1 Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Friedrich Max Müller |
| Author | Friedrich Max Müller |
| Publisher | C. Scribner, 1866 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 12 Nov 2009 |
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