Abhîra, or Âbhira, 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,

27.

ANG

Akbar, his foundation of the so-
called Ilahi religion, 151.
works translated into Persian
for him, 151.

not able to obtain a translation

of the Veda, 152.

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

note.

ANQ

Anquetil Duperron, his translation
of the Persian translation of
the Upanishads into French,
154.

his translation of the works of
Zoroaster, 168, 206.
Apollo, temple of, at Rome, 102.
AR, the root, various ramifications
of, 252.

Arabic, influence of, over the Turk-
ish language, 83.
ascendency of, in Palestine and
Syria, 281.

original seat of Arabic, 281.
ancient Himyaritic inscriptions,
281.

earliest literary documents in
Arabic, 281.

relation of Arabic to Hebrew,
281.

Aramaic division of Semitic lan-
guages, 276.

two dialects of, 276.
Ariana, the, of Greek geographers,
240.

Ariaramnes, father of Darius, origin
of the name, 241.
Aristotle on grammatical categories,

97, 126.

Armenia, origin of the name, 242.
Arpinum, provincial Latin of, 67.
Article, the, original meaning of the
word, 98.

the Greek, restored by Zenodo-
tus, 99.

Arya. See Aryan.

Ârya-âvarta, India so called, 237.
Aryan, an Indo-European family of
languages, 43, 80, 177.

mode of tracing back the gram-
matical fragments of the
Aryan languages to original
independent words, 231-233.
Aryan grammar, 234.
northern and southern divisions
of the, 211.

the original Aryan clan of
Central Asia, 212.

period when this clan broke up,
212.

formation of the locative in all

the Aryan languages, 219.
Aryan civilization proved by
the evidence of language,

235.

BER

Aryan, origin and gradual spreading
of the word Arya, 236.
original seat of the Aryans, 238.
the Aryan and Semitic the only
families of speech deserving
that title, 282.

genealogical table, 394, 395.
Asia Minor, origin of the Turks of,
306.

Asiatic Society, foundation of the,
at Calcutta, 158.

Asoka, King, his rock inscriptions,
146.

Assyria, various forms of the name,
247.

Astrology, causes of the extinction
of the science, 19.
Astronomy, origin of the word, 16.
the Ptolemæan system, al-
though wrong, important to
science, 26.

Auramazda, of the cuneiform in-
scriptions, 207. See Ormuzd.
Auxentius on Ulfilas, 181–186 note.

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.