530 
c. Bibles. 
d. The Lord’s Prayer, collections of. 
e. Separate essays : 
e. Bachmeister’s specimen. 
f. The parable of the Prodigal 
Son. 
y. The words of the great com- 
paratiye vocabulary of Ca- 
tharine JT. 
2. Comparisons of various languages 
with each other. 
3. Maps of languages. 
VIII. DEAD LANGUAGES: 
1. Ancient. 
2. Modern: 
a, Literature. 
b. Remains of languages. 
Such is the gigantic plan, which the 
learned author hopes to carry into exe- 
cution; and, as the basis of it is to be 
facts, he begins by an attempt to ascer- 
tain the names of all the languages of 
the globe, and to collect specimens of 
every dialect. This labour (as_ he 
justly observes inhis preface, page iv.) 
was by far the most difficult part of his 
undertaking. But, that he has been 
eminently successful in this particular, 
will be evident from the following re- 
sult of his labours :— 
That my work will be free from errors, 
I cannot expect; but I venture to affirm, 
that it gives a more complete view of the 
subject than has hitherto appeared, and, 
perhaps, than it has been possible to ex- 
hibit. For this advantage it is indebted to 
the abundant sources of information, 
which the modern travels, particularly of 
the English, the Bible Societies, and the 
more extended range of philological 
science, have opened during the last ten 
years ; and it will hardly appear credible 
io those who have not ascertained the fact 
by comparison, that my survey exhibits 
987 names of Asiatic languages, 
587 European, 
276 Aftican ; and 
1214 American; 
making, consequently, in the whole 3064 
languages and dialects; while the indefa- 
tigable and successful diligence of the 
authors of ‘¢ the Mithwidates’” could collect 
together only about 2000. — Preface, 
pages vil. viii. 
The work consists of two parts; in 
the first, the author gives a list of all 
the languages, arranged according to 
their respective stocks or families, 
and the geographical situation of the 
nations that speak them; and in the 
‘second part, the names of the languages 
are arranged alphabetically under each 
quarter of the globe. 
1. ASIA. 
Monosyllabic— 
I, Chinese. 
Novelties of Foreign Literature. 
[July 1, 
IT. Tibetian, Thobbot, Tangutian. 
III. Boman, Boma, Barma, Burman, 
Byamma, Myamma, Avan, 
IV. Peguan. 
V. Anamitic. 
VI. Siamese, Siuanlo. 
Polysyllabic ; arranged under the following 
geographical divisions: 
A. Southern Asia ; comprehending 
I. The Malay; from the eastern coast 
of Africa and Madagascar, to Easter 
Island in the South Sea, 
II. Farther India, stock of. 
B. Western Asia ; comprehending 
I. The Semitic stock. 
II. Armenian, Haikan. 
III. Georgian, Grusinian, Iberian. 
IV. Caucasian. 
C. Middle Asia; comprehending 
I. The Turcico-Tatar stock. 
II. Mongolian. 
IIL. Mandschu, 
1V. Corean. 
D. Northern Asia. Siberia ; compre- 
hending 
I. Various mixed nations on the fron 
tiers of Asia and Europe. : 
II. Samoyedes. 
III. Nations of various unknown stocks 
in north-eastern Asia. 
E. Islands of Eastern Asia; comprehending 
I. Sachalin, or Tschoka, 
II. Japan, 
IIf. Insu, Jedso, Tschika. 
IV. Lieu-Kieu islands, Lgutschu islands, 
Lew-Chew. 
V. Formosa. 
2. EUROPE. 
I. Cantabrian, or Basque. 
IT. Celtic stock. 
III. Celtico-Germanic, 
stock. 
IV. German (Germanischer) 
comprehending 
A. The German (Deutscher) main 
stock, 
B. Scandinavian main stock. 
C. English. 
V. Vhracico-Pelasgic Greek and Latin 
stock ; comprehending 
A. The Thracico-I{llyrian main: stock, 
in Asia Minor and in Europe 
B. Pelasgic main stock. 
C. Hellenic-Greek main stock. 
D. Latin stock. . 
VI. Slavonic (Slavischer) stock. 
VII. Germanico-Slavonic, or Lettish 
stock. 
VIII. Romano-Slavonic, or Wallachian. 
IX. Tshudish stock. 
X. Mixed languages on the south- 
eastern border of Europe, comprehend- 
ing the Hungarian and Albanian, with 
their dialects. 
3. AFRICA. 
I. Northern Africa,as far as thesouthern 
frontiers of Sahara : 
A. Barbary. ¢ 
or 'Cimbrian 
stock ; 
B. Guanchen, 
