664

TJie Loom of Language

instrumental case, 318
instrumental directives, 145
interdictionary, 494 ff
interlanguage, essential features, 509-

5io

Interlingua, 450, 467-70
international language, 88
interphonetics, 506-9
interrogation, 158, 161, 169
interrogation, Romance, 399-400
interrogative particles, 158, 161
interrogatives, 145

interrogatives, Romance, 371 ff, 375
interrogatives, Teutonic, 276
intransitive, 149
intransitive and transitive, in German,

306

inversion, 158
Iranian, Old, 407
Irish, see Erse

irregular verbs, French, 380
irregular verbs, Latin, 323
isolating languages, 195-6
Italian, 194, 200, 203, 214, 242 ff>

309 ff, 347, 349 ff, see also

Romance

Italian and Latin, compared, 315
Italian, early, 312
Italic dialects, 309

James, Lloyd, 508
Japanese, 193, 194, 200, 215
Japanese writing, 63, 66 ff, 435,

438-9
Jespersen, O, 117, 213-14, 466,

470-2, 485-63 488, 509
Jones, Sir W, 180-1
Joyce, J, 324

Kafir-Sotho languages, 209

Kana, 48, 67-8, 438

Katakana syllabary, 435, 438, 440

Kirghiz, 193, 194

Kmwinian, 212

koine, 253

Koran, 423

Korean, 193, 194

Kyrillic alphabet, 414, 416

Language study, uses of, 16 ff
Langue Bleue, 459

Lappish, 193, 194, 200

Latin, 200-1, 309 ff

Latin, and Interlingua, 468-9

Latin and Italian, compared, 315

Latin, as interlanguage, 313

Latin, classical, 314 ft

Latin, disuse as language of culture

443

Latin, in Gaul, 309-10
Latin inscription, early, 311
Latin languages, sound changes,

238 ff

Latin letteis, 72
Latin, "logicality" of, 315-18
Latin, popular, 310-11
Latin, pronunciation, 254
Latin roots in English, 238, 314
Latin, vulgar, Romance words from,

341-2

Lannesce, 472

Lattnization of English, 223-4
Latino sine flexione, see Interlingua
Latvian, 193, 406, 413
League of Nations, 462
learning a language, and flexions,

125 ff

learning a language, three skills re-
quired, 25
learning a language, what it involves,

24 ff

Leibniz, 179, 444, 449 ff, 468
Lenin, V 1, 88
Lettish, see Latvian
liaison, 257

link-words, 32, see also conjunctions
Linnaeus, 452
kteiary and non-liteiary languages,

405

Lithuanian., 188, 193, 194, 406, 413
locative, 315, 318
Lockhart, Miss L W, 499
logograms, 57 ff

logographic writing, 48, 57 v *
Luther, M, 289

Magyar, 193, 194, 197, 200
Malay, 194, 196
Malayo-Polynesian languages, 194
Mahnowsfci, B , 169, 170, 212, 451
Maltese, 194, 424
Manchu, 193, 194
Manutius, Aldus, 50
Manx, 417