Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May, and June, 1861Scribner, Armstrong, 1874 - 4 pages |
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... dialects of India and Persia , must have sprung from an earlier language , the mother of the whole Indo - European or Aryan family of speech ; if we see how Hebrew , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different ...
... dialects of India and Persia , must have sprung from an earlier language , the mother of the whole Indo - European or Aryan family of speech ; if we see how Hebrew , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different ...
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... dialects of savage tribes , although , in the absence of a written literature , it is extremely difficult to obtain trustworthy information . But in the few instances where careful observations have been made on this interesting subject ...
... dialects of savage tribes , although , in the absence of a written literature , it is extremely difficult to obtain trustworthy information . But in the few instances where careful observations have been made on this interesting subject ...
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... dialects , and the ancient Greek was supplanted in the end by the modern Ro- maic . And though the art of printing and the wide diffusion of Bibles , and Prayer - books , and newspapers have acted as still more powerful barriers to ...
... dialects , and the ancient Greek was supplanted in the end by the modern Ro- maic . And though the art of printing and the wide diffusion of Bibles , and Prayer - books , and newspapers have acted as still more powerful barriers to ...
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... dialects have been reduced to writing , and made known by the press.1 Champol- lion - Figeac reckons the most distinguishable dialects of France at fourteen.2 The number of modern Greek dialects is carried by some as high as seventy ...
... dialects have been reduced to writing , and made known by the press.1 Champol- lion - Figeac reckons the most distinguishable dialects of France at fourteen.2 The number of modern Greek dialects is carried by some as high as seventy ...
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... dialects ! The Friesian , which is spoken on a small area on the north - western coast of Germany , between the Scheldt and Jutland , and on the islands near the shore , which has been spoken there for at least two thousand years , 2 ...
... dialects ! The Friesian , which is spoken on a small area on the north - western coast of Germany , between the Scheldt and Jutland , and on the islands near the shore , which has been spoken there for at least two thousand years , 2 ...
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