Assyrian and Babylonian Letters Belonging to the Kouyunjik Collections of the British Museum, Part 5University of Chicago Press, 1900 |
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Page 6 - EDKINS.— CHINA'S PLACE IN PHILOLOGY. An attempt to show that the Languages of Europe and Asia have a common origin.
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