Adelung, his Mithridates, 139
Adjectives, formation of, in Tibetan,
106 note

in Chinese, 113 note
Elius Stilo, Lucius, his lectures in
Rome, on Latin grammar, 103
Affinity, indications of true, in the
animal and vegetable world, 16, 17
Afghanistan, the language of, 212
Africa, South, dialects of, 55
African language, an imaginary, 225
Âge, history of the French word, 298
Agglutination in the Turanian family of
languages, 297

Aglossoi, the, of the Greeks, 84
Agriculture of the Chaldeans, work on
the, 285

Punic work of Mago on, 87 note
Ahirs, the, of Cutch, 205

Akbar, the Emperor, his search after
the true religion, 150

his foundation of the so-called
Ilahi religion, 150

APO

Akbar, the Emperor, works translated
into Persian for him, 150

not able to obtain a translation of
the Veda, 151

Albania, origin of the name, 246
Albanian language, origin of the, 202
Albertus Magnus, on the humanising
influence of Christianity, quoted, 124

note

Alchemy, causes of the extinction of
the science,

Alexander the Great, influence of his
expedition in giving the Greeks a
knowledge of other nations and lan-
guages, 85

his difficulty in conversing with
the Brahmans, 85

Alexandria, influence of, on the study
of foreign languages, 88

90

critical study of ancient Greek at,

AR

BOO

-the Greek, restored by Zenodotus,

Arya. See Aryan

Arya-âvarta, India so called, 240
Aryan, an Indo-European family of
languages, 33, 72, 177

mode of tracing back the gram-
matical fragments of the Aryan lan-
guages to original independent words,
234, 238

-Aryan grammar, 238

northern and southern divisions of
the, 213

the original Aryan clan of Central
Asia, 214

-period when this clan broke up, 215
formation of the locative in all the
Aryan languages, 221

-Aryan civilisation proved by the
evidence of language, 238
origin and gradual spreading of the
word Arya, 240

original seat of the Aryans, 242

the Aryan and Semitic the only
families of speech deserving that
title, 288

genealogical table, 400
Asia Minor, origin of the Turks of, 311
Asiatic Society, foundation of the, at
Calcutta, 158

Aśoka, King, his rock inscriptions, 143
Assyria, various forms of the name, 251
Astrology, causes of the extinction of
the science, 9

Astronomy, origin of the word, 5

the Ptolemæan system, although
wrong, important to science, 17
Auramazda, of the cuneiform inscrip-
tions, 208. See Ormuzd

Auxentius on Ulfilas, 181, 186 note

RABER, his Indian empire, 305
Babylonia, literature of, 283

probability of the recovery of, from
the cuneiform inscriptions, 283
Barabas tribe, in the steppes between the
Irtish and the Ob, 310
Barbarians, the, of the Greeks, 83

seem to have possessed greater
facility for acquiring languages than
either Greeks or Romans, 87

the term Barbarian as used by the
Greeks and Romans, 122

unfortunate influence of the term,

122
Bashkirs, race of the, in the Altaic
mountains, 309

Basil, St., his denial that God had
created the names of all things, 30

note

Baziane tribe, in the Caucasus, 309
Beaver, the, sagacity of, 14

Behar, Pâli once the popular dialect
of, 143

Beowolf, the ancient English epic of,
177

Berber, dialects of Northern Africa,
origin of the, 287

Berners, Juliana, on the expressions pro-

per for certain things, 63
Berosus, his study and cultivation of the
Greek language, 87

his history of Babylon, 87

his knowledge of the cuneiform
inscriptions, 88

Bible, number of obsolete words and
senses in the English translation of
1611, 35

Bibliander, his work on language, 127

note