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478 Comparative philology, 3, 241.

Composition of words—see Combination.

concrete, 112.

Confucius, representative man of China, 333.

Conjugation, forms of, in Indo-European language, 266-9; in its later dialects, 269-70; their loss by phonetic corruption in English, 75-7, 86-7; conjugational forms in Semitic language, 303; in Scythian, 319-20.

Conjugations, irregular and regular, in English, 79-82.

Conjugations, of Semitic verb, 304; of Scythian, 319; of South-African, 345.

Conjunctions, in Indo—European language, 276.

Consciousness, different degrees of, in the processes of language-making, 40-41, 50, 121-4.

Consciousness, different subjection of mental action to, in man and lower animals, 440.

Conservative forces in linguistic tradition, 31, 43-4, 148-51, 159.

Consonants and vowels, relation of, 89, 91.

Constraining influence of acquisition of language on mental action, 445-6.

Conventionality of words, as signs of ideas, 14, 32, 71, 128, 148, 409-10, 438.

copper, 130.

Coptic language, 340-41; writing, 455.

coquette, 429.

Corean language, 329.

Cornish language, 216, 218.

could, 468.

count, 261.

court, etc., 108.

cover, 388.

Craik, Rev. G. L., referred to, 211 note.

Creek language, 350.

Crow, its power of numeration, 415-17.

Cultivated or learned dialects, 149-51, 182-4.

Cultivation of a language, its meaning and effect, 182-4.

Culture and education, conservative influence of, on language, 17, 149-51, 158-9.

Culture, only possible by means of language, 441; won in the acquisition of language, 441-5.

Cuneiform characters, origin of, 459-60; monuments, in these characters, of Persia, 222; of Assyria, 295; Persian language of, 222; Semitic, 306; asserted Ugrian 314-15.

Curtius, Professor George, referred to, 200.

Cymric group of Celtic languages, 190, 217.

Cyril; Slavic Bible-version of, 214.

czar, 106.

-d ending of English preterits, origin of, 60, 81-2, 117, 235.

daguerreotype, 39.

dahlia, 146.

Dakota language, 350.

Danish language, 212.

Darfur, language of, 346.

daughter, 196.

Dead languages 149-50.

Deaf-mutes, language of, 410-11, 413, 422; thought of, 414.

dealt, 79.

dear me!, 277.

Decimal system of numeration, on what founded, 419.

Declension, forms of, in Indo-European language, 270-74; in its later dialects, 274-5; their loss by phonetic corruption, 77-9.—See also Cases.

Dekhan, languages of; 224, 326.

Delaware or Algonquin group of American languages 350.

Demotic, later Egyptian, alphabet, 455.

Dialects, their prevalence, 153-4; their explanation, 154-62; causes which bring about dialectic diversity, 154-5; which restrain it, 155-6, 159; which reduce it, 160-61; illustrations of dialectic divergence and convergence, 162-74; dialects of English, 170-71; in America, 171-4; dialectic growth everywhere inevitable, 174, 181-2; dialect and language convertible terms, 175; erroneous views respecting dialects, 177-84; dialectic differences always imply original unity, 178-84.

did, 268; forms ending of English preterits, 60-61, 81-2, 235; auxiliary, 117.

Ding-dong theory of origin of language, 427.

discuss, 112.

Divine origin of language, in what sense to be accepted, 399-403.

duff, 116, 262.

don, 116, 262.

Doric dialect of ancient Greek, 221.

double, 62.

Dravidian languages of southern India, 198, 326-7.