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A, the letter, derivation of, 464.

a, flattening of, in dance, etc., 43.

a or an, article, 115.

-able, 40-41.

abstract, 112.

Abyssinia, Semitic languages of, 297, 299.

Abyssinian group of Hamitic languages, 341, 343.

Accent, makes unity of word, 56; how produced, 89; its various place in different languages, 95-6.

Accidental correspondences between words unrelated, 185, 243-4, 387-91.

Achæmenidan monuments, 222; character in which they are written, 460.

Acquisition of language, how made, 11-20; acquisition of mental training and knowledge involved in it, 442-5.

Adelung, referred to, 4.

Adjectives, in Indo-European language, 275; English nouns directly convertible into, 282.

Adverbs in Indo-European language, 275-6.

Æolic dialect of ancient Greek, 221.

Afghan or Pushto language, 192, 224.

Africa, languages of, 297, 299, 340-46.

again, 115.

Agglutinative structure of Scythian languages, 316-20; of Dravidian, 327.

Agglutinative tongues, their characteristics, classification, and relations, 360-65.

Ainos, language of, 329.

alas, 277.

Albanian language. descendant of ancient Illyrian, 191, 290-91, 355.

Alemannic dialect of Old High-German, 163, 211.

Alforas of Australia, language of, 340.

Algonquin group of American languages, 350.

ally, 29.

alms, 29, 102, 387.

alphabet, 460.

Alphabet, spoken, structure and relations of, 91; primitive alphabet of Indo-European language, 265; its development, 266; limited alphabets of Polynesian languages, 338.

Alphabet, written, germs of in Egypt, 454-5; derivation of alphabetic cuneiform, 460; syllabic alphabets, 460-61; Semitic alphabet and its derivatives, 461-3; Greek and its derivatives, 463; Latin, 464-6; English, 466-7.

also, 111, 114.

Altaic family of languages—see Scythian.

am, 62-3, 115, 135, 267.

America, the English language in, 151, 171-4.

America, aboriginal languages of, 346-53; their variety and changeableness, 346-7; probable unity, 348; polysynthetic structure 348; principal groups in North America, 350-51; question of their relation to Asiatic languages, 330, 351; absurd theories respecting this, 352; importance to us of their study, 352.

American aborigines, examples of picture-writing by, 450-52.

Amharic language, of Abyssinia, 297, 299.

an or a, article, 115.

-ana, 140.

Analogies, extension of prevailing, its influence in producing the changes of language, 27-8, 82, 85.

Analogies between linguistic and certain physical sciences, 46-7, 52.

Analysis, etymological, of words, 55 seq.; is the retracing of a previous historical synthesis, 65-7, 251-4; indispensable in comparison of languages, 246.

Analytical tendency in modern languages, 120, 279; its ground, 280-86.

and, 115. (475)