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History of the Smithfield Club from 1798 to 1900
E. J. Powell
出版
Lightning Source Incorporated
, 2008-10-27
主題
History / General
ISBN
1443769533
9781443769532
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tILO63BzQyAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
PREFACE. IN 1887 I published a small volume on Altaic Hieroglyphs and Hittite Inscriptions, now sold out. In this I expIained the reasons for supposing this script to be decipherable by aid of Mongol speech, and added tentative renderings of some of the shorter texts while the reader was duly warned that much time would elapse before final results, on the lines laid down, could be expected. I received kind encouragement from several well - known specialists to continue the study, which has now occupied me for ten years, with results which confirm the original suggestions. Very little has been written as to the decipherment of these texts since my discovery was published. Dr Peiser in Germany has pronounced an opinion in favour of the comparison of Hittite and Turkish, which is practically what I had previously indicated. Dr Peter Jensen of Harburg calls the Hittite a suffixing language, and yet proposes a comparison with Armenian, which is a modern Aryan prefixing I language. Neither writer claims to read the tests. In 1893 I published a further paper on the subject in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, but since then I have found it possible to make considerable advance, in consequence of new sources of information.....