A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East IndiesThis is Volume II of fourteen in the India: Language and Literature Series. Originally published in 1878, this book offers information on the Languagesof the East Indies, that include the language families of Aryan, Dravidian, Kolarian, Tibeto-Burman, Khasi, Tai, Mon-Anam, and Malayan. |
Contents
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CHAPTER II ARYAN FAMILY | 28 |
CHAPTER III DRAVIDIAN FAMILY | 65 |
CHAPTER IV KOLARIAN FAMILY | 79 |
CHAPTER V TIBETOBURMAN FAMILY | 87 |
CHAPTER VI KHASI FAMILY | 117 |
CHAPTER VII TAI FAMILY | 119 |
CHAPTER VIII MONANAM FAMILY | 124 |
CHAPTER IX MALAYAN FAMILY | 131 |
CHAPTER X CONCLUSION | 148 |
APPENDICES | 157 |
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Alfurese Arabic Archaic Archipelago Aryan Aryan Family Aryan Vernaculars Asamese Assam Balúchi Bengal Bengáli betwixt Bhotia Bible Bombay British India Buddhists Bunsen on Turanian Burma Burmese Bustar Calcutta Caldwell Central Provinces China civilisation Crawfurd Dialects Dictionary District Dravidian Family Dravidian Languages East Ethnology frontier Gond Grammar Grammatical Notes Group guage Gujaráti Hills Hindi Hindu Hodgson Indic branch Iranic branch Irawaddy Island of Sumatra Java Javanese Kambojan Kanarese Karén Kashmir Khond Language-Field Letter to Bunsen linguistic Literature loan-words London Mahomedan Malacca Malay Malayan Family Max Müller Mekong Missionaries Mon-Anam Family Monosyllabic Nágari Negritos Non-Aryan noticed further occupied Pagan peculiar Character Peninsula population portion Prakrit Province of Assam Province of Bengál Province of Madras Punjab race religion River Mekong Roman Character Sanskrit Serampore Sindhi South spoken Standard Sumatra Tamil Telugu Tibet Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Family translated tribes Trumpp Turanian Turanian Languages uncertain Uriya valley Vocabularies West words