These are hence alike called the Indo-European races; and as the same linguistic roots are found in their languages and in the Zend-Avesta, we infer that the ancient Persians, or inhabitants of Iran, belonged to the same great Aryan race.

The last Daniel who cometh up to judgment is Father Papallthe very embodiment of vivaciousness, linguistic activity, and dignity in a nut shell.

Adj. lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual; diglot^, hexaglot^, polyglot; literary.

In drawing-room circles, and for the immediate hour, this ingenious comparison was as damaging as the showing up of Merman's mistakes and the mere smattering of linguistic and historical knowledge which he had presumed to be a sufficient basis for theorising; but the more learned cited his blunders aside to each other and laughed the laugh of the initiated.

Assuming the truth of the above sketch of pre-Christian culture, which has been put together only with the help of defective linguistic sources, and comparing it with the present, we find, as the result, a considerable progress, for which the Philippines are indebted to the Spaniards.

With reference to the importance, nay, to the indispensability, of linguistic signs in the use of the understanding, the science of the forms of thought is briefly termed grammar.

This battle between the established linguistic form and the new content gives rise to charming, but at the same time alarming, conflicts.

In the seventeenth century it was felt strongly how much the store of linguistic expression had diminished, partly on account of a violent and careless "working of the mine," which made prodigal use of the existing medium, as was the case in the prose of Luther and, above all, of Johann Fischart and his contemporaries; partly on account of a narrow confinement to a small number of ideas and words, as in the church hymns.

Patriotically-minded men, on the contrary, endeavored to cultivate the purity of their mother tongue the while they enriched it; this, above all, was the ambition of the various "Linguistic Societies."

Their activity, though soon deprived of a wide usefulness by pedantry and a clannish spirit, prepared the way for great feats of linguistic reorganization.

It was a thoroughly conservative linguistic stewardship, which received gigantic expression in Adelung's Dictionarywith all its deficiencies, the most important German dictionary that had been compiled up to that time.

It seems that the communication of these ideas to Muhammedanism was impeded by the necessity of translating them not only into a kindred language, but into one of wholly different linguistic structure.

In this latter respect, no parts of his writings are more remarkable than those in which he urges the importance of philological and linguistic studies.

Perhaps the cynical games visible all round convinced one about not getting caught up in the meaningless emotionalism that was ruling both linguistic camps.

What primarily was a caste-fuelled was being fought out along linguistic lines.

A whole lot of more grist to the linguistic mill that ultimately served to build circulation, allowing Rajan to boost his bargaining power on this basis.

His lordship's linguistic slip served him right.

" At this revelation of startling linguistic ability Steve paused to receive felicitations.

Linguistic science in the nineteenth century.

BENTLEY, ARTHUR F. Linguistic analysis of mathematics.

BENTLEY, IMOGENE S. Linguistic analysis of mathematics.

Linguistic science in the nineteenth century, methods and results.

SMITH, ELMER R. Linguistic awareness test.

SEE Knudson, John I. Linguistic awareness test.

to 20° S.; are negroid rather than negro, being in several respects superior; the name, however, suggests rather a linguistic than an ethnological distinction, the language differing radically from all other known forms of speechthe inflection, for one thing, chiefly initial, not final.