No. III. Genealogical Table of the Turanian Family of Languages, Northern Division.
No. IV. Genealogical Table of the Turanian Family of Languages, Southern Division.
ABDU-L-KADIR MALUK, MULLA, Shah of Badáún, his general his- tory of India, and other works, 151
Abhira, or Abhira, at the mouth of the Indus, 204.
Abiria, the, of Ptolemy, 204. Ablative, the, in Chinese, 119 note. Abraham, the language of, 278. Abu Saleh, his translation from San- skrit into Arabic, 150.
Abyssinian language, ancient and modern, 281. Academy, New, doctrines of the, embraced in Rome, 107. Accusative, formation of the, in Chinese, 118 note.
Achæmenian dynasty, inscriptions of the, 210.
Adelung, his Mithridates, 142. Adjectives, formation of, in Tibetan, 113 note.
in Chinese, 119 note. Elius Stilo, Lucius, his lectures in Rome, on Latin grammar, 109. Affinity, indications of true, in the animal and vegetable world, 26,
America, Central, rapid changes which take place in the lan- guage of the savage tribes of, 62.
great number of languages spoken by the natives of, 62. Hervas's reduction of them to eleven families, 63. Amharic, or modern Abyssinian, 281.
Anatomy, comparative science of,
Anglo-Saxon, the most ancient epic in, 177.
Angora, in Galatia, battle of, 308.
Anquetil Duperron, his translation of the Persian translation of the Upanishads into French, 154.
his translation of the works of Zoroaster, 168, 206. Apollo, temple of, at Rome, 102. AR, the root, various ramifications of, 252.
Arabic, influence of, over the Turk- ish language, 83. ascendency of, in Palestine and Syria, 281.
original seat of Arabic, 281. ancient Himyaritic inscriptions, 281.
earliest literary documents in Arabic, 281.
relation of Arabic to Hebrew, 281.
Aramaic division of Semitic lan- guages, 276.
two dialects of, 276.
Ariana, the, of Greek geographers, 240.
Ariaramnés, father of Darius, origin of the naine, 241. Aristotle on grammatical categories,
Aryan, origin and gradual spreading of the word Arya, 236. original seat of the Aryans, 238. the Aryan and Semitic the only families of speech deserving that title, 282.
genealogical table, 394, 395. Asia Minor, origin of the Turks of,
Asiatic Society, foundation of the, at Calcutta, 158.
Asoka, King, his rock inscriptions 146.
Assyria, various forms of the name, 247.
Astrology, causes of the extinction of the science, 19. Astronomy, origin of the word, 16. the Ptolemæan system, al- though wrong, important to science, 26.
Auramazda, of the cuneiform in- scriptions, 207. See Ormuzd. Auxentius on Ulfilas, 181–186 note.
BABER, his Indian empire, 299. Babylonia, literature of, 278.
probability of the recovery of, from the cuneiform inscrip- tions, 278.
Barabas tribe, in the steppes be- tween the Irtish and the Ob, 304. Barbarians, the, of the Greeks, 91.
seemed to have possessed great- er facility for acquiring lan- guages than either Greeks or Romans, 94.
the term Barbarian as used by the Greeks and Romans, 127. unfortunate influence of the term, 127.
Bashkirs, race of the, in the Altaic mountains, 303.
Basil, St., his denial that God had created the names of all things, 40 note.
Baziane tribe, in the Caucasus, 303. Beaver, the, sagacity of, 24. Behar, Pâli once the popular dialect of, 146.
Beowolf, the ancient English epic of, 177.
Berber, dialects of Northern Africa, origin of the, 282.
Berners, Juliana, on the expressions proper for certain things, 72. Berosus, his study and cultivation of the Greek language, 94. his history of Babylon, 95. his knowledge of the cuneiform inscriptions, 95.
Bible, number of obsolete words and senses in the English translation of 1611, 45.
Bibliandro, his work on language, 131 note.
Birúni, Abu Rihan al, 150.
his "Tarikhu-l-Hind," 150. Bishop and sceptic derived from the same root, 257.
Boëthius, Song of, age of the, 196. Bohemian, oldest specimens of, 201. Bonaparte, Prince L., his collection of English dialects, 70. Booker's "Scripture and Prayer Book Glossary" referred to, 45. Books, general destruction of, in China in 213, B. c. 227. Bopp, Francis, his great work, 166.
results of his "Comparative Grammar," 234. Botany, origin of the word, 15.
the Linnæan system, although imperfect, important to sci- ence, 26.
Brahman, the highest being, known through speech, 88. Brahmans, their deification of lan- guage, 87.
their early achievements in grammatical analysis, 88. difficulties of Alexander in con- versing with them, 93. Brahmanas, the, on language, 87. Brennus, 199.
Brown, Rev. Mr. on the dialects of the Burmese, 63. Brutes, faculties of, 351.
instinct and intellect, 353. - language the difference between man and brute, 354.
the old name given to brutes, 379. Buddhism, date of its introduction into China, 147.
Bulgarian Kingdom on the Danube, 319.
- language and literature, 200. Bulgaric branch of the Finnic class of languages, 319.
Bulgarian tribes and dialects, 319. Buriates, dialects of the, new phase of grammatical life of the, 64. Burmese language and literature, 63. dialects, 63.
Burnouf, Eugène, his studies of Zend, 168, 206.
and of cuneiform inscriptions, 168.
CESAR, JULIUS, publication of his work "De analogia," 110. invented the term ablative, 110. Carneades forbidden by Cato to lec- ture at Rome, 109.
Carthaginian language, closely allied to Hebrew, 280.
Case, history of the word, 111. Cases, formation of, in the Aryan languages, 218.
Cassius, Dionysius, of Utica, his translation of the agricultural work of Mago, 95 note. Castor and Pollux, worship of, in Italy, 102.
Castren on the Mongolian dialects,
Cat, origin of the word, 365. Catherine the Great of Russia, her
"Comparative Dictionary," 143. Cato, his history of Rome in Latin, 104.
his acquisition of the Greek language in his old age, 106. reasons for his opposition to everything Greek, 106. Caucasus, tribes of the, 303. Celtic language, substantive exist- ence of, 79.
Celtic, a branch of the Indo-Euro- pean family of languages, 198. Celts, their former political autono- my, 198.
Chaldee, in what it consisted, 276. fragments in Ezra, 276. -language of the Targums, 277. literature of Babylon and Nin- eveh, 278.
the modern Mendaites or Naso- reans, 279.
Changes, historical, affecting every variety of language, 44. rapid changes in the languagen of savage tribes, 44.
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