Grammar of the Modern Armenian Language as Spoken in Constantinople and Asia Minor (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Riggs, Elias

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332795846 ISBN 13: 9781332795840

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Grammar of the Modern Armenian Language as Spoken in Constantinople and Asia Minor

It is difficult to trace the history of the modern language. Ev idence of the existence of some of its distinctive forms is found as far back as the thirteenth century. Their introduction was no doubt gradual. Still the Ancient Armenian continued to be the only language of books, for ages after the spoken tongue had become substantially what it is at the present day. It is only during the present century that the modern language has begun to be cultivated as a language of books, the genius of the age and the best interests of humanity requiring that authors should no longer. As formerly, veil their ideas in a dialect accessible only to the few, but should spread them far and wide in the free and idiomatic use of the languages vernacular to their countrymen.

Facilities for the acquisition of the Ancient Armenian exist both in English and in other European tongues, and an abundance of excellent Grammars and Lexicons await the scholar, who is prepared to avail himself of them, in the language itself. But, so far as I am aware, the present is the first attempt to exhibit the grammar of the Modern Armenian. The Armenians them'

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1332795846
• ISBN 13: 9781332795840
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 94
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