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About The Book - The present volumes by eminent Indologist and Linguistic W.D. Whitney contains valuable and important research articles. The volume One contains 13 articles namely—The Vedas; The Vedic doctrine of a future life; Muller`s History of Vedic literature; The translation of the Veda; Muller`s Rig Veda translation; The Avesta; Indo-European philology and Ethnology; Muller`s lectures on language; Present state of the question as to the origin of language; Bleek and the Simious theory of language; Schleicher and the Physical theory of language; Steinthal and the Psychological theory of language; Language and education. In the end an index of the words.Volume two contains articles pertain ing to the East and West; Religion and mythology; orthography and phonology; Hindu astromony etc. This volume contains 12 articles. They are: The British in India; China and the Chinese; Chinese and the West; Muller`s Chips from a German workshop; Cox`x Aryan mythology; Alford`s Queen`s English; How shall we spell? The elements of English pronunciation; The relation of Vowel and Consonant; Bell`s visible speech; On the accent in Sanskrit and on the Lunar Zodiac of India, Arabia and China. An index in the end.
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ISBN : 9788121223928
Pages : 446
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