Slovinian language, the, 200.
Smith, Adam, his opinion on the origin of language, 40.
on the formation of thought and language, quoted, 371.
Sydney, on the superiority of mankind over brutes, quoted, 348.
Snorri Sturluson, his prose Edda, 193.
his “Heimskringla,” 193.
his “Skalda,” 193.
Solomon's fleet of Tharshish, 202.
Song-yun, the Chinese pilgrim to India, his travels, 149.
Sound, small number of names formed by the imitation of, 365.
Spec, offshoots of the root, 257.
Species, origin of the Latin, 260.
Squirrel, origin of the name, 365.
Stewart, Dugald, his opinion on the origin of language, 41.
his doubts as to the age and authenticity of Sanskrit, 147.
his view of the affinity of Greek and Sanskrit, 164.
on the origin of language, quoted, 343.
Stoics, philosophy of the, in Rome, 107.
Strabo on the Barbarians, 125 note.
Sturluson. See Snorri.
Sugar, origin of the word, 364.
Swedish language, growth of the, 71, 191.
Syria, origin of the Turks of, 306.
Syriac language, date of the translation of the Bible into the, 276.
meaning of Peshito, 276 note.
decline and present position of the language, 276.
Talmud of Jerusalem, and that of Babylon, literary idiom of the Jews in the, 277.
Targums, language in which they were written, 277.
Targums, most celebrated of them, 277 note.
“Tarikhu-l-Hind,” the, of Al Birúni, 150.
Tatar tribes, 297.
terror caused by the name, 297.
the Golden Horde, 298.
Tataric language, 297.
sometimes used in the same sense as Turanian, 297.
Tavastian dialect of Finnic, 318.
Terminations, grammatical, Horne Tooke's remarks on, quoted, 251.
Terminology, grammatical of the Greeks and Hindus, coincidences between the, 115.
Testament, the New, translated into Persian, 151.
Old, number of words in the, 267.
Teutonic class of languages, 177.
the English language, a branch of, 80.
Tharshish, Solomon's fleet of, 202.
Themistocles, his acquaintance with the Persian language, 93.
Thommerel, M., on the proportion Saxon words bear to Norman in the English language, 84.
Thracians, ancient authors on the, 126 note.
Thunder, origin of the word, 364.
Tiberius Gracchus, his knowledge of Greek, 103.
Tiberius the Emperor, and the grammarians, anecdote of, 47.
Tibetan language, how adjectives are formed in the, 113 note.
Timur, Mongolian empire of, 299.
Tooke, Horne, on grammatical terminations, quoted, 251.
his answer to the interjectional theory of roots, 367.
Torgod Mongols, the, 300.
Trade first encouraged the profession of interpreters, 93.
Turanian family of languages, 43.
origin of term Turanian, 238.
Turanian races, 243.
Turanian names mentioned by Greek writers, 243.
component parts of Turanian speech, 272.
Tungusic idioms, new phase of grammatical life of the, 64.
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Tungusic class of languages, 296.
geographical limits of the, 296.
grammar of, 323.
Turanian family of languages, 288.
a terminational or agglutinative family of languages, 288, 291.
divisions of the Turanian family, 289.
the name Turanian, 289.
characteristic features of the Turanian languages, 290, 291.
account of the languages of the Turanian family, 296.
genealogical table, 397.
Turkic class of languages, 300.
grammar, 309.
profuse system of conjugation, 323.
Turkish language, influence of imported words over the whole native aspect of the, 83.
two classes of vowels in, 295.
ingenuity of Turkish grammar, 308.
its advance towards inflectional forms, 337.
Turkman, or Kisil-bash, origin of the, of Persia, 302.
Turks, history of the, 301.
origin of the Turks of Asia Minor and Syria, 306.
origin and progress of the Osmanlis, 306.
spread of the Osmanli dialect, 306.
Turner, Sharon, on the proportion of Norman to Saxon words in the English language, 84.
Turvasa, the Turanian, 243.
Twenty, origin of the word, 52.
Ugric branch of the Finnic class of languages, 320.
Ulfilas, Bishop, notice of him and of his Gothic translation of the Bible, 181.
Umbrian language and literature, 197.
Upanishads, the, translated from Sanskrit into Persian by Dárá, 154.
translated into French by Anquetil Duperron, 154.
Uralic languages, 315.
Uran'hat tribes, on the Chulym, 304.
Urdu-zeban, the proper name of Hindustání, 316.
Usbeks, history of the, 302.
Vâch, the goddess of speech, her verses quoted from the Rig-Veda, 88 note.
Varro, de Re Rust, on Mago's Carthaginian agricultural work, quoted, 95 note.
his work on the Latin language, 109.
appointed by Cæsar librarian to the Greek and Latin library in Rome, 110.
Vasco da Gama, takes a missionary to Calicut, 154.
Vedas, the, 116.
differences between the dialect of the Vedas and later Sanskrit, 116.
objections of the Brahmans to allow the Vedas to be translated, 152.
story of Feizi, 152.
Verbs, formation of the terminations of, in the Aryan dialects, 222.
modern formations, 222.
Very and much, distinction between, 48.
Vibhakti, in Sanskrit grammar, 116.
Voguls, the, 320.
Votiakes, idiom of the, 319.
habitat of the, 320.
Vyâkarana, Sanskrit name for grammar, 116.
Wallachian language, the, 195 note.
Wends, language of the, 201.
Whewell, Dr., on the science of language, 38 note.
Wilkins, Mr., on the affinity between Sanskrit and Greek, 160.
Windic, or Slavonic languages, 199.
divisions and subdivisions of, 199.
Witsen, Nicholas, the Dutch traveller, his collection of words, 136 note.
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Xavier, Francis, his organization of the preaching of the Gospel in India, 154.
his gift of tongues, 154.
Yakuts, tribe of the, 304.
dialect of the, 305.
Yea and Yes, as used by Chaucer, 225.
Zend, Rask's studies of, 167.
Burnouf's, 168.
Zend-avesta, the, 167.
antiquity of, 205, 206.
the words Zend and Zend-avesta, 205 note.
Anquetil's translation of, 206.
Rask and Burnouf's labors, 206.
Zend-avesta, authority of the Zend-avesta for the antiquity of the word Arya, 239.
Zenodotus, his restoration of the article before proper names in Homer, 99.
the first to recognize the dual, 99.
Zeus, original meaning of the word, 21.
Zoroaster, or Zarathustra, his writings (the Zend-avesta) translated into Greek, 96.
translated by Anquetil Duperron, 168.
his Gâthâs, or songs, 209.
age in which he lived, 209.
not the same as Jaradashti in the Veda, 209.
Zoroastrians. See Parsis.
original seat of the, 248.