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pardon the sesquipedalian combination — 

 again divided into a couple of idioms of whicli 

 the one, the Grseco-Italo-Keltic, became the 

 parent of Hellenic, Albanic, and of Italo- 

 Keltic, the latter, so called because Italic 

 and Keltic arose from it, whereas the other 

 produced the Arian* language, the closely 

 connected stocks of the Indicf as well as of 

 the Tranic (Persic) class. It Avould be 



* The most ancient inhabitants of India and Irania (Persia) 

 both called themselves Arians ; hence the name for the common 

 stock-language of Indie and Iranic. — A. 



f The stock-language of the Indie class has been preserved 

 to us in the language in which the old religious hymns of the 

 Indians, the Veda hymns, ar^ written. From that idiom 

 proceeded iu one direction the middle-Indic forms, the Pra- 

 krit branches (further away the neo-Indlc languages and 

 dialects — i.e., Bengalese, Mahratta, Hiudostanee, and cognate 

 tongues), and in another direction Sanscrit, a written or lite- 

 rary language, which was never the language of the people, 

 but the medium of the post-Vedic Indian literature ; in some 

 measure the Latin of India, the written Latin of the Romans, 

 which remains up to the present time the vernacular of the' 

 learned. — A. 



