A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East IndiesPsychology Press, 2000 - 198 pages This is Volume II of fourteen in the India: Language and Literature Series. Originally published in 1878, this book offers information on the Languagesof the East Indies, that include the language families of Aryan, Dravidian, Kolarian, Tibeto-Burman, Khasi, Tai, Mon-Anam, and Malayan. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
MALAYAN FAMILY | 4 |
CHAPTER III | 65 |
CHAPTER IV | 79 |
CHAPTER V | 87 |
CONCLUSION | 116 |
CHAPTER VI | 117 |
CHAPTER VIII | 124 |
PAGE | 131 |
CHAPTER X | 148 |
A TWO LANGUAGEMAPS | 157 |
| 185 | |
F LIST OF ORIENTAL SERIALS AND BOOKS ON THE GENERAL | 194 |
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Arabic Archaic Aryan Aryan Family Aryan Vernaculars Asamese Assam Balúchi basin Bengáli betwixt Bhotia Bible Bombay British India Buddhists Bunsen on Turanian Burma Burmese Calcutta Caldwell Central Provinces China civilisation Crawfurd Dialects Dialects of Hindi Dictionary distinct District Dravidian Family Dravidian Languages East Ethnology frontier Gond Grammar Grammatical Notes Group guage Gujaráti hills Himalaya Hindu Hodgson independent Indic branch Indus Iranic branch Irawaddy Javanese Kachári Kanarese Karén Kashmir Khond kingdom Kolarian Family Language-Field Letter to Bunsen Literature loan-words London Madras Province Mahomedan Malay Malayan Family Maráthi Max Müller Missionaries Mon-Anam Family Monosyllabic mountains Nágari Negritos Nepál Non-Aryan noticed further occupied Pagan peculiar Character Persian population portion Prakrit Province of Assam Province of Bengal Punjab race religion Roman Character Sanskrit Sindhi Sinhalese South speak spoken Standard Sumatra Tamil Telugu Tibet Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Family translated tribes Trumpp Turanian Languages uncertain Uriya valley Vocabularies West words