Lectures on the Science of Language, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1873 - Comparative linguistics |
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... possible , therefore , that the people here alluded to form a portion of the Hottentot race , whose progenitors remained behind in the interior country , to the south or south - west of Egypt , whilst the general emigration continued ...
... possible , therefore , that the people here alluded to form a portion of the Hottentot race , whose progenitors remained behind in the interior country , to the south or south - west of Egypt , whilst the general emigration continued ...
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... possible in more ancient formations ; that what has been found to be true on a small scale may be true on a larger scale . Prin- ciples like these , which underlie the study of Geology , are equally applicable to the study of Philology ...
... possible in more ancient formations ; that what has been found to be true on a small scale may be true on a larger scale . Prin- ciples like these , which underlie the study of Geology , are equally applicable to the study of Philology ...
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... possible , in more ancient formations , and that what has been found to be true on a small scale may be true on a larger scale . But the same illustration may also serve as a warning . There is much in the science of language to tempt ...
... possible , in more ancient formations , and that what has been found to be true on a small scale may be true on a larger scale . But the same illustration may also serve as a warning . There is much in the science of language to tempt ...
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... possible in French is possible in Latin , that what explains Ben- gali will explain Sanskrit ; nay , the similarity be tween some of the Aryan languages and the Bask in the formation of their participles should be consi- dered as an ...
... possible in French is possible in Latin , that what explains Ben- gali will explain Sanskrit ; nay , the similarity be tween some of the Aryan languages and the Bask in the formation of their participles should be consi- dered as an ...
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... possible only in inflectional languages that have passed their period of growth , and have entered into the stage of phonetic decay . To call for the same evidence in support of the homogeneousness of the Turanian languages , is to call ...
... possible only in inflectional languages that have passed their period of growth , and have entered into the stage of phonetic decay . To call for the same evidence in support of the homogeneousness of the Turanian languages , is to call ...
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alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon articulate Aryan languages aspirates Asvins breath bright Brücke called Celtic Chinese consonantal consonants Curtius Dawn deity dental derived dialects distinct doubt English etymology explain express French Germ German glottis gods Gothic Grammar Grammatik Greek Grimm Grimm's Law guages guttural Hawaian hence Homer horses idea Indra instance Italian Kafir Kuhn's Zeitschrift labial Latin Lectures letters likewise Maruts meaning meant originally metaphor modern mythology nations nature never noun Old High-German Old Norse onomatopoeia palate participle peculiar phonetic Polynesian Polynesian languages Pott Professor pronounced pronunciation Rigveda riksha Roman Sanskrit Saramâ Savitar Saxon scholars Science of Language sense Slavonic soft sonant sound speak speech spiritus asper spiritus lenis spoken stars suffix supposed syllable tenuis Teutonic things thought tongue trace Varuna Veda verb vibrations Vivasvat vowels words Yama Zeus δὲ καὶ τὸ τῶν