Researches Into the Origin and Affinity of the Principal Languages of Asia and Europe

Adelung admitted affinity of languages alphabet ancient writers Anglo-Saxon antiquity appears Arabia Asia Minor authority Babylonia Celtic Celts circumstance civilisation cognate colonies conclusion conjecture conquest consequently considered consonants contained contrary derived Diodorus Siculus dissimilar distinct languages Egypt English etymologists etymology Europe Euxine evident evince exist Firdausi foreign formed German Getæ Gothic Goths grammatical structure Grecian Greece Greek Alphabet Greek and Latin guages Hebrew Herodotus Hindí Hindus Homer hypothesis identity impossible India inflections inhabitants language of Asia langue letters lingua manner merely migrated nations necessarily follow nouns observes opinion origin Pahlvi parent tongue Parsi particles Pelasgi Pelasgian Persian Phenician preserved primitive tongue probable pronunciation prove quæ race received religion remarks render respecting Romans Sanscrit words Scythians seems singular slightest sound spoken Strabo sufficient supposed Tartar tenses Teutonic dialects Thrace Thracian language Thracians Thucydides trace Trojan war vowels Zend δε