Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May, & June 1861, Volume 1 |
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... Semitic race ; and if we add to these two , the Aryan and Semitic , at least one more well - established class of languages , the Turanian , comprising the dialects of the nomad races scattered over Central and Northern Asia , the ...
... Semitic race ; and if we add to these two , the Aryan and Semitic , at least one more well - established class of languages , the Turanian , comprising the dialects of the nomad races scattered over Central and Northern Asia , the ...
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... Semitic religion and with it necessarily a Semitic religious terminology , did not accept that religion till after it had passed through a Persian channel . Hence the large number of Persian words in Turkish , and the clear traces of ...
... Semitic religion and with it necessarily a Semitic religious terminology , did not accept that religion till after it had passed through a Persian channel . Hence the large number of Persian words in Turkish , and the clear traces of ...
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... It contains chiefly syntactical and grammatical remarks , and its object is to show that modes of expression in Greek , which sound anomalous and No one could help seeing that these languages were most STUDY OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES . 137.
... It contains chiefly syntactical and grammatical remarks , and its object is to show that modes of expression in Greek , which sound anomalous and No one could help seeing that these languages were most STUDY OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES . 137.
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... Semitic , the Hellenic , Italic , and Teutonic : he derives , however , Greek from Hebrew . I. I. Scaliger , in his Diatriba de Europæorum Linguis ( Opuscula varia , Parisiis , 1610 ) , p . 119 , distinguishes eleven classes : Latin ...
... Semitic , the Hellenic , Italic , and Teutonic : he derives , however , Greek from Hebrew . I. I. Scaliger , in his Diatriba de Europæorum Linguis ( Opuscula varia , Parisiis , 1610 ) , p . 119 , distinguishes eleven classes : Latin ...
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... Semitic scholars of the seventeenth century , yet this partial advance became in other respects an impediment . The purely scientific interest in arranging languages according to their characteristic features was lost sight of , and ...
... Semitic scholars of the seventeenth century , yet this partial advance became in other respects an impediment . The purely scientific interest in arranging languages according to their characteristic features was lost sight of , and ...
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Page 28 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.