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, Akbar, his foundation of the so-
Shah of Badáún, his general his- tory of India, and other works, 151
Abhîra, or Âbhîra, 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,
called Ilahi religion, 151. works translated into Persian for him, 151.
not able to obtain a translation
of the Veda, 152.
Albania, origin of the name, 242. Albanian language, origin of the, 201.
Albertus Magnus, on the humanizing
influence of Christianity, quoted,
Alchemy, causes of the extinction of the science, 19. Alexander the Great, influence of his expedition in giving the Greeks a knowledge of other nations and languages, 93. his difficulty in conversing with the Brahmans, 93.
Alexandria, influence of, on the study of foreign languages, 96.
critical study of ancient Greek at, 97.
Algebra, translation of the famous
Indian work on, into Arabic, 149. Algoquins, the one case of the, 221
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,
27. Anglo-Saxon, the most ancient epic in, 177.
Angora, in Galatia, battle of, 308.
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 66 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, 64.
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, 273.
the modern Mendaïtes or Naso- reans, 279.
Changes, historical, affecting every variety of language, 44. rapid changes in the languages of savage tribes, 44.
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