Genealogical Table of the Turanian Family of Languages, Northern Division.
Abdu-l-Kadir Maluk, Mulla, Shah of Badáún, his general history of India, and other works, 143 note. Abhîra, or Abhîra, at the mouth of the Indus, 191.
Abiria, the, of Ptolemy, 191.
Abu Saleh, his translation from Sanskrit into Arabic, 142.
Abyssinian language, ancient and mo- dern, 268.
Academy, New, doctrines of the, em- braced in Rome, 98. Achæmenian dynasty, inscriptions of the, 196.
Adelung, his Mithridates, 184.
Adjectives, formation of, in Tibetan, 103 note.
Elius Stilo, Lucius, his lectures in Rome, on Latin grammar, 100. Affinity, indications of true, in the animal and vegetable world, 16, 17. Afghanistan, the language of, 197. Africa South, dialects of, 53. African language, an imaginary, 210. Âge, history of the French word, 279. Agglutination in the Turanian family of languages, 278.
Aglossoi, the, of the Greeks, 81. Agriculture of the Chaldeans, work on the, 267.
Punic work of Mago on, 84 note. Ahirs, the, of Cutch, 191.
Akbar, the Emperor, his search after the true religion, 142.
his foundation of the so-called Ilahi religion, 143.
works translated into Persian for him, 143.
not able to obtain a translation of
Albania, origin of the name, 230. Albanian language, origin of the, 188.
Arabic, ancient Himyaritic inscriptions,
earliest literary documents in Ara- bic, 268.
relation of Arabic to Hebrew, 269. Aramaic division of Semitic languages,
-two dialects of, 263.
Ariaramnēs, father of Darius, origin of the name, 229.
Ariana, the, of Greek geographers, 227. Aristotle on grammatical categories, 87,
Armenia, origin of the name, 229. Arpinum, provincial Latin of, 57. Article, the, original meaning of the word, 88.
the Greek, restored by Zenodotus, 89.
Arya. See Aryan. Ârya-âvarta, India so called, 224. Aryan, on Indo-European family of languages, 32, 69, 169.
mode of tracing back the gram- matical fragments of the Aryan languages to original independent words, 219-221. Aryan grammar, 222.
northern and southern divisions
the original Aryan clan of Central Asia, 199.
period when this clan broke up, 199.
formation of the locative in all the
Aryan languages, 206. Aryan civilisation proved by the evidence of language, 223. origin and gradual spreading of the word Arya, 224.
original seat of the Aryans, 226. the Aryan and Semitic the only families of speech deserving that title, 270.
genealogical table, 380.
Asia Minor, origin of the Turks of, 293. Asiatic Society, foundation of the, at Calcutta, 150.
Asoka, King, his rock inscriptions, 138. Assyria, various forms of the name, 234. Astrology, causes of the extinction of the science, 9. Astronomy, origin of the word, 5.
the Ptoleinæan system, although wrong, important to science, 17. Auramazda, of the cuneiform inscrip- tions, 194. See Ormuzd.
Baber, his Indian empire, 286. Babylonia, literature of, 265.
probability of the recovery of, from the cuneiform inscriptions, 265. Barabas tribe, in the steppes between th Irtish and the Ob, 291. Barbarians, the, of the Greeks, 81.
seemed to have possessed greate facility for acquiring languages than either Greeks or Romans, 84.
the term Barbarian as used by the Greeks and Romans, 117. unfortunate influence of the term, 117.
Bashkirs, race of the, in the Altaic mountains, 290.
Basil, St., his denial that God had created the names of all things, 29 note. Baziane tribe, in the Caucasus, 290. Beaver, the, sagacity of, 14.
Behar, Pâli once the popular dialect of, 138.
Beowolf, the ancient English epic of,
Berber, dialects of Northern Africa, origin of the, 269.
Berners, Juliana, on the expressions pro- per for certain things, 61. Berosus, his study and cultivation of the Greek language, 84.
his history of Babylon, 84.
his knowledge of the cuneiform inscriptions, 85.
Bible, number of obsolete words and
senses in the English translation of 1611, 35.
Bibliandro, his work on language, 121
Birúni, Abu Rihan al, 141.
his "Tarikhu-l-Hind," 141. Bishop and skeptic derived from the same root, 244.
Boëthius, Song of, age of the, 183. Bohemian, oldest specimens of, 187. Bonaparte, Prince L., his collection of English dialects, 58.
Booker's "Scripture and Prayer-Book Glossary" referred to, 35. Books, general destruction of, in China in 213 B.C., 214.
Bopp, Francis, his great work, 158.
results of his "Comparative Gram- mar," 221.
Botany, origin of the word, 5.
the Linnæan system, although im perfect, important to science, 17. Brahman, the highest being, known through speech, 78.
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