kye, 44.
Labial series of articulate sounds, 91.
laird, 388.
Language, in what aspect the subject of linguistic science, 6, 10, 54; interest of inquiries into, 7-8; how acquired by those who speak, 11-22; 1 what a language is, 22; how kept in existence, 23; dead languages, 149-150; constant change or growth of language, 24-33; Iay what instrumentality produced, 35-46, 125, 154; processes of growth, 55-135; rate and kind of growth, and causes affecting it, 137-53; dialects, 153-85; the various forms of human language and their genetic classification, 185-229, 294-357; other modes of classification, 357-70; relation of language to race, 14-15, 370-83; its evidence incapable of determining the question of human unity, 383-94; language an institution, the work of its speakers, 48, 401-3, 442-5; its conventional character, 32, 409-10; it is a social product and possession, 404; part taken by individuals and by the community, respectively, in its production, 45, 148, 154-6, 171; language not identical with thought, nor indispensable to it, but its instrument and aid, 405-21; its imperfection as means of expression, 20, 109-11, 406-7; its value to man, 440-47; education involved in its acquisition, 13, 15-16, 441-3; its constraining influence on mental action, 445-6; its work supplemented by writing, 447-9; origin of language, in what sense divine, 399-403; desire of communication its direct impulse, 403-5; its beginnings of what kind, 421-6; how produced, 426-34; example of development of a language from such beginnings, 250-87; language a human possession only, 399, 414-17, 438-40.
Language, science or study of—see Linguistic science.
Langue d'oc, 164, 218.
Lapps, language of, 191, 309.
Latin language, its age, literature, etc., 219-20; its relations in Italy, 165, 220; history of its extension in southern Europe, 165-9; causes of this, 375, 378, 382; its artificially prolonged existence, 150; its modern descendants, 167, 216-19; its spoken alphabet, 465; its written alphabet, 463-4, 465-6.
Latin words, introduction of into English, 143-6; Latinized style of English, 146.
learn, 262.
led, 80.
Lena, branch of Turkish language upon, 310-11.
Lepsius, Professor R., referred to, 92 note, 341 note, 344 note.
Lesgbian language, 355.
-less, 58.
Lettish language, 191, 215.
Libyan languages, 341, 343.
lie, 75-6.
Life of a language, what is meant by, 32, 35; its analogy with that of an organized being, or of a race of such, 46; the processes constituting—see Change, linguistic.
like, in such and which, 57, 70; in -ly, 58-60, 70, 73; the verb, 108, 113.
likewise, 114.
Lingual series of articulate sounds, 19.
Linguistic change or growth—see Change, linguistic.
Linguistic evidence of race, its nature and limitations, 371-9.
Linguistic scholars, differences of temperament among, 324.
Linguistic science, of recent development, 1; its preparatory stages, 1-3; its progress, 3-6; its material, 6, 50, 230; its objects and their interest, 6-8; what it seeks in language, 10, 54, 237; analogies between it and certain physical sciences, 46-48, 52; it is a historical science, 48-52; its truly scientific character, 53; its method, 52, 54-5, 237-48; its dependence on Indo-European comparative philology, 4, 233-7.
Literary culture, its influence on the history of language, 23, 37, 43-5, 148-51, 159-60, 182-4.
Literary languages, 149-50, 174; their usual origin, 164.
Lithuanian group of languages, 191, 215.
Little-Russian language, 214.
Livonia, Scythian languages of, 309.
Livonian language, 191, 215.
Local dialects, acquired in learning to talk, 16-17.
Loo-Choo islands, language of, 329.
lord, 388.
lore, 262.
