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INDEX
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Language, family and dialect names are marked in bold. Literary titles are marked with italics, with the author’s name in parentheses.
A description of Ceylon (Cordiner) 389
A Key into the Language of America (Williams) 481, 484
Aachen 316-317
’Abd el Malik, Caliph 97
’Abdul Qasim ‘Unsuri, Persian poet 110
Abu Nawas, Persian poet 98
Abu Zayd of Siraf 103n
Académie Française 409
Acadians 414n
Acehnese 208
Achaean dialect of Greek 236
Achaeans 240
Achaemenids, ruling house of the Persian empire 98
Aché Pyvé 361
Acosta, Joseph de, Spanish historian 337
Adad-niršri, king of Assyria 64
Adams, Will, British samurai 388
Advancement of Learning (Bacon) 328
Aegean 264, 267
Aeolic dialect of Greek 236, 237n
Afghanistan 39, 4748, 85, 96, 99, 101, 108, 212, 245, 257, 269, 536
Africa 12, 45, 111, 391, 527
demographics 530
and English 507
French empire 417-419, 444, 490
German colonies 448
second-language speakers 515
Afrikaans 399, 444, 507
Afro-Asiatic languages 36, 90, 97, 102, 122, 554
Agbatana 43
Aguilar, Jerónimo de, Spanish interpreter 342
Ahiqar, Aramaean sage 38, 83
Ahiram, king of Byblos 72
Akhetaten 62
Akkadian
Amama correspondence 62, 128
and Assyria 13, 21, 79, 129
as classical language 68
as model of literacy 58-68, 512
bilingualism with Sumerian 51, 53-57, 111, 163
influence 80, 517
lingua franca 61-62, 65, 67-68, 128-129
literature 30-33
origin of name 60
range of language 59
related to Arabic 93, 110, 112
Semitic language 35, 35n, 36-37, 40-44
written form 11n, 33, 46, 49-50, 512
see also writing, cuneiform
Akhenaten, Pharaoh 125-126
Al-Jahiz 98
Al-Muqaddasi, Arab geographer 98
Alalah 62
Alans 305, 307, 308, 425
Alcuin, English scholar 316-318, 328
Aleksandr I, Tsar 431, 433, 438
Aleksey, Tsar 431
Aleppo 41
Alexander the Great 12, 30, 48, 57, 75-76, 85-86, 131, 165, 191, 219, 239, 243-245, 248, 250, 257, 276, 278
Alexander VI, Pope 336, 365
Alexander’s Campaign (Arrian) 272
Alexandria in Egypt 48, 86, 130, 131, 247-249, 259
Alexandria of the Arachosians 246
Alfonso X of Castile, king 384
Algeria 411-412, 416-418, 444, 520
Algonquian languages 477n, 483n, 484
Almoravids 99, 384
Alopen, Nestorian monk 90
Alphabet
abstract tool 46
Brahmi 85n, 156
Cyrillic 442, 443n
first 34, 72n, 110, 155
Kharoshthi 85n
Greek 242
Lugano 284-285
Roman 242, 476
runic 106
Siddha 156
see also writing
Altaic languages 138, 145, 146, 150, 151, 170
characteristics 138, 145
Altan Khan 179
Amadís de Gaula 331
Amama correspondence 62, 128
Amenophis III, pharaoh 231n
Americana, world enthusiasm for 179
Americas
bilingualism 346, 367, 376
Council of Lima 373
English-speaking communities 480-481
European colonies 482
Hispanización 373-377
indigenous languages 347-355, 356-360, 361-364, 366-375, 480-484
language-learning 345-346
loss of population 22, 336-338, 365
missionary linguists 346-347, 364, 368, 371, 373-375, 392-394, 481n, 499n, 509, 519, 537, 540n
political independence 375
and Portuguese 391-395
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