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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Page 58
... tribes of Central Asia , Africa , America , and Polynesia , language still lives in its natural state , in a state of continual combustion ; and it is there that we must go if we wish to gain an insight into the growth of human speech ...
... tribes of Central Asia , Africa , America , and Polynesia , language still lives in its natural state , in a state of continual combustion ; and it is there that we must go if we wish to gain an insight into the growth of human speech ...
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... tribes liv- ing together in that country , which , even now , is called " the mountain of languages . " In modern times , again , when missionaries have devoted themselves to the study of the languages of savage and illiterate tribes ...
... tribes liv- ing together in that country , which , even now , is called " the mountain of languages . " In modern times , again , when missionaries have devoted themselves to the study of the languages of savage and illiterate tribes ...
Page 62
... tribes , and who compiled with great care a dictionary of all the words they could lay hold of . Returning to the same tribe after the lapse of only ten years , they found that this dictionary had become antiquated and useless . Old ...
... tribes , and who compiled with great care a dictionary of all the words they could lay hold of . Returning to the same tribe after the lapse of only ten years , they found that this dictionary had become antiquated and useless . Old ...
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... tribes , speaking their own independent di- alects ; and in the neighborhood of Manipura alone Captain Gordon collected no less than twelve dialects . " Some of them , " he says , " are spoken by no more than thirty or forty families ...
... tribes , speaking their own independent di- alects ; and in the neighborhood of Manipura alone Captain Gordon collected no less than twelve dialects . " Some of them , " he says , " are spoken by no more than thirty or forty families ...
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... tribe , that even within the limits of twelve or twenty German miles , communication among them becomes extremely difficult . Castrèn , the heroic explorer of the languages of northern and central Asia , 1 assures us that some of the ...
... tribe , that even within the limits of twelve or twenty German miles , communication among them becomes extremely difficult . Castrèn , the heroic explorer of the languages of northern and central Asia , 1 assures us that some of the ...
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