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

the Veda, 144.

Albania, origin of the name, 230.
Albanian language, origin of the, 188.

Arabic, ancient Himyaritic inscriptions,

268.

earliest literary documents in Ara-
bic, 268.

relation of Arabic to Hebrew, 269.
Aramaic division of Semitic languages,

263.

-two dialects of, 263.

Ariaramnēs, father of Darius, origin of
the name, 229.

Ariana, the, of Greek geographers, 227.
Aristotle on grammatical categories, 87,

116,

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

of the, 198.

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,

169.

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

note.

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.