CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PAGAN ANTIQUITY 1
6. CHRISTIANITY. THE MIDDLE AGES 4
7. THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES 6
8. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 9
9. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 12
10. I. THE ANCIENT LITERARY LANGUAGES OF INDIA AND IRAN BECOME KNOWN
11. INDIAN 14
12. IRANIAN 23
13. II. THE GREAT LINGUISTIC GROUPS OF MODERN EUROPE: GERMANIC, SLAVONIC, CELTIC
14. GERMANIC 30
15. SLAVONIC 43
16. CELTIC 53
17. III. LITHUANIAN, ALBANIAN, ARMENIAN
18. LITHUANIAN 64
19. ALBANIAN 67
20. ARMENIAN 73
21. IV. THE CONTINUED STUDY OF THE CLASSICAL LANGUAGES
22. CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY 79
23. GREEK 84
24. LATIN 91
25. V. THE STUDY OF NON-INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILIES OF LANGUAGES
26. THE FOREIGN FAMILIES SURROUNDING EUROPE 102
27. THE NON-INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILIES SURROUNDING INDIA 127
28. THE MORE DISTANT NON-INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE FAMILIES 133
29. VI. INSCRIPTIONS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES. THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF WRITING
30. THE LANGUAGES OF THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS 148
31. THE LANDS OF THE HIEROGLYPHS 166
32. THE SEMITIC ALPHABET 176
33. THE MORE DISTANT OFFSHOOTS OF THE SEMITIC ALPHABET 188
34. THE COUNTRIES OF THE GREEK ALPHABET 203
35. Greek Discoveries 203
36. The Greek Alphabet among Foreign Peoples 208
37. Offshoots of the Latin Alphabet 229
38. VII. THE METHODS OF COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS
39. A SURVEY OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT 240
40. The Older Period of Comparative Linguistics 248
41. The New Period of Comparative Linguistics 277
42. VIII. LINGUISTIC AFFINITIES OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS, HOME, AND CIVILIZATION
43. INDICES
44. GENERAL INDEX 343
45. INDEX OF WORDS 353