About The Book - The present volumes by eminent Indologist and Linguistic W.D. Whitney contains valuable and important research articles. The volume One contains 13 articles namely—The Vedas; The Vedic doctrine of a future life; Muller's History of Vedic literature; The translation of the Veda; Muller's Rig Veda translation; The Avesta; Indo-European philology and Ethnology; Muller's lectures on language; Present state of the question as to the origin of language; Bleek and the Simious theory of language; Schleicher and the Physical theory of language; Steinthal and the Psychological theory of language; Language and education. In the end an index of the words.Volume two contains articles pertain ing to the East and West; Religion and mythology; orthography and phonology; Hindu astromony etc. This volume contains 12 articles. They are: The British in India; China and the Chinese; Chinese and the West; Muller's Chips from a German workshop; Cox'x Aryan mythology; Alford's Queen's English; How shall we spell? The elements of English pronunciation; The relation of Vowel and Consonant; Bell's visible speech; On the accent in Sanskrit and on the Lunar Zodiac of India, Arabia and China. An index in the end. About The Author- William Dwight Whitney (1827 –1894) was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar and Vedic philology as well as his influential view of language as a social institution. He was the first president of the American Philological Association and editor-in-chief of The Century Dictionary. Whitney revised definitions for the 1864 edition of Webster's American Dictionary, and in 1869 became a founder and first president of the American Philological Association. In the same year he also became Yale's professor of comparative philology. Whitney also gave instruction in French and German in the college until 1867, and in the Sheffield scientific school until 1886. He wrote metrical translations of the Vedas, and numerous papers on the Vedas and linguistics, many of which were collected in the Oriental and Linguistic Studies series (1872–74). He wrote several books on language, and grammar textbooks of English, French, German, and Sanskrit. The Title 'Oriental and Linguistic Studies: The East West; Religion and Mythology; Orthography and Phonology; Hindu Astronomy written/authored/edited by William dwight Whitney', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121223928 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 446 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-
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