Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. 1866

INDEX TO PART I. description of the site of the entrenchment of... [...] English is a dialect as every one knows of Plate-Deutsch allied to the Hoch-Deutsch the tongue of Giiethe and Schiller by the ties of a common descent ... the early Gothic the sister of Sanskrit. [...] Now this may mean either that mnnshi Arabic is incorrect according to the rules of grammar of the times of the Kunin ; or that it is wrong according to the usages of the modern colloquial and written Arabic. [...] That the language of the towns.even in Muhammad's time had lost much of its early purity is shown inter alia by the customs of the townsmen of sending their children into the desert to learn from the months of the Badawin the unadulterated tongue. [...] Bar-Hebtous in his Syriac History of the dynasties" speaks Of the Arabs always as "Tayoye" or men of the tribe of Tai whose dialect differed considerably not only in the use of words but in grammatical forms from the literary standard of Arabic.