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Philology and Linguistics

General

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• European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, 1992
• English Official Language Amendment, failed 2005 attempt to make English the official language of the United States
• Homer and Classical Philology, 1869 by Friedrich Nietzsche
• What is the use of phonetics?, 1910 by Otto Jespersen
• Articles from Popular Science Monthly:
  • "Are Languages Institutions?" in Popular Science Monthly, 7 (June 1875)
  • "Further Remarks on the Greek Question" in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (October 1884)
  • "An Infant's Progress in Language" in Popular Science Monthly, 13 (September 1878)
  • "Language and the Emotions" in Popular Science Monthly, 14 (December 1878)
  • "Lingual Development in Babyhood" in Popular Science Monthly, 9 (June 1876)
  • "Reason Against Routine in the Study of Language II" in Popular Science Monthly, 6 (February 1875)
  • "Sham Admiration in Literature" in Popular Science Monthly, 17 (May 1880)

American Sign Language

• The Sign Language: A Manual of Signs, 1918 by J. Schuyler Long
• "The Philology of the Sign-Language", 1921 by Elizabeth Peet

Arabic

• A Treatise on the Permutations of Letters in the Arabic Language, by Author:Moluvee Roshun Ulee, translated by Robert Tytler in 1810

Bulgarian

• A short grammar of the Bulgarian Language, 1897, by William Richard Morfill[1]

Chinese

• Chinese Without a Teacher, 1922 by Herbert Allen Giles
• Essays on the Chinese Language, 1889 by Thomas Watters
• A progressive course of colloquial Chinese, 1908 by Thomas Francis Wade
• Synoptical Studies in Chinese Character, 1874 by Herbert Allen Giles

Fuzhou

• The Chinese Language Spoken at Fuh Chau, 1856 by Moses Clark White
• Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect, 1929 by R. S. Maclay, C. C. Baldwin and Samuel H. Leger
• An English-Chinese Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect (transcription project), 1905 by T. B. Adam

Shantou

• English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular Or Spoken Language of Swatow (transcription project), 1883 by Rudolf Lechler, Samuel Wells Williams, William Duffus
• Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular (transcription project), 1886 by Lim Hiong Seng
• Dictionary of the Swatow dialect, 1883 by Adele Marion Fielde

Chaozhou

• A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect (transcription project), 1883 by Josiah Goddard
• First Lessons in the Tie-chiw Dialect (transcription project), 1841 by William Dean

English

• The American Language, 1919 by Henry Louis Mencken
• A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language
• A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, 1926 by Henry Watson Fowler
• A Dictionary of Australian Words And Terms, 1924 by Author:Gilbert H. Lawson
• English as we speak it in Ireland, 1910 by Patrick Weston Joyce
• Essentials of English Grammar for the Use of Schools, 1877 by William Dwight Whitney
• The Evolution of English Lexicography, 1900 by James Augustus Henry Murray
• A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, 1888 by Sidney Oldall Addy
• The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
• The King's English, 1906 by Henry Watson Fowler
• Articles from Popular Science Monthly:
  • "Language and the English Civil Service" in Popular Science Monthly, 12 (December 1877)
  • "The Place of English in the Higher Education" in Popular Science Monthly, 14 (November 1878)
• A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue, 1712 by Jonathan Swift
• The Etymology of the Name 'Emu', from Essays on Early Ornithology and Kindred Subjects by James R. McClymont (1920)

Greek

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• Greek-English Lexicon
• The Vocabulary of Menander, by Donald Blythe Durham (1913)
• "On the Homeric Use of the word Ἥρως", The Philological Museum, vol. 2 (1833)
• "The Termination -κός, as used by Aristophanes for Comic Effect", American Journal of Philology, 31(4): 428–444. (1910)
• "The Suffix -μα in Aristophanes", American Journal of Philology 37(4): 459–465. (1916)

Latin

• A Latin Dictionary, 1879 by Charlton T. Lewis
• Latin for beginners, 1909 by Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge

Pashto

• Grammar and Vocabulary of Waziri Pashto, 1902 by Author:John Gordon Lorimer[2]

Persian

• A Grammar of the Persian Language, 1771

Romani

• English Gipsies and Their Language, 1874 by Author:Charles Godfrey Leland[3]
• The Dialect of the English Gypsies, 1875 by Author:Bath Charles Smart[4]

Sanskrit

• A History of Sanskrit Literature, 1900 by Arthur Anthony Macdonell
• Sanskrit Grammar, 1879 by William Dwight Whitney

Sierra Leone

• Specimens of Languages from Sierra Leone, 1916 by Author:Northcote Whitridge Thomas[5]

Ukranian

• Valuyev Circular, 1863 outlawing the Ukranian language

See also

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