Elements of the Science of Language

accent agglutinating analytic ancient Arabic Aryan Avesta Ba-ntu Bengali borrowed branch called characteristics Chinese Classical clearly closely colloquial common compounds concepts connected consonants culture derived dialects distinct division Dravidian Dravidian languages English example fact family of languages flexion forms gender German grammarians Greek Grierson Grimm's Law Gujarati Hamitic Hence Hindi human idea important incorporating indicate Indo-Aryan Indo-Aryan languages Indo-European Indo-European languages inflected languages influence Iranian langu languages of India large number later Latin linguistic literary literature Max Müller means modern monosyllabic nouns original Panini Parsi period Persian philologists Philology phonetic laws phrases plural possess Prakrit prefixes pronouns race remarkable root Sanskrit Grammar Sauraseni scholars Semitic languages sense sentence shows Sindhi sounds speakers speech spirants spoken stage structure suffixes syllable syntax to-day tongue tribes Tucker Urdu variety various Vedic verb Vernaculars vowel Vowel-gradation Western words