���x PREFACE BY ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION OF FOREIGN ALPHABETS 1 DISTRIBUTION AND CULTURAL CONNECTIONS OF THE MALAYAN RACES; PLAN OF THE PRESENT WORK 2 GENERAL CONSIDERATION OF THE COURSE OF MAN'S DEVELOPMENT 3 GENERAL CONSIDERATION OF THE COURSE OF MAN'S DEVELOPMENT (continued) 4 EFFECTS OF EXCEPTIONAL MENTAL POWER; CIVILIZATION, CULTURE AND EDUCATION 5 CONJOINT ACTION OF INDIVIDUALS AND NATIONS 6 CONJOINT ACTION OF INDIVIDUALS AND NATIONS (continued) 7 TRANSITION TO CLOSER CONSIDERATION OF LANGUAGE 8 FORM OF LANGUAGES 9 NATURE AND CONSTITUTION OF LANGUAGES AS SUCH 10 SOUND-SYSTEM OF LANGUAGES; NATURE OF THE ARTICULATED SOUND; SOUND-CHANGES; ALLOCATION OF SOUNDS TO CONCEPTS; DESIGNATION OF GENERAL RELATIONS; THE SENSE OF ARTICULATION; SOUND-SYSTEM OF LANGUAGES; TECHNIQUE OF THIS 11 INNER LINGUISTIC FORM 12 COMBINATION OF SOUND WITH INNER LINGUISTIC FORM 13 THE PROCEDURE OF LANGUAGE MORE FULLY EXPLAINED; VERBAL AFFINITY AND VERBAL FORM 14 ISOLATION, INFLECTION AND AGGLUTINATION OF WORDS 15 VERBAL UNITY MORE CLOSELY EXAMINED; INCORPORATIVE SYSTEM OF LANGUAGES; MEANS OF DESIGNATING VERBAL UNITY; THE PAUSE; LETTER-CHANGE 16 ACCENT 17 INCORPORATIVE SYSTEM OF LANGUAGES; FRAMING OF THE SENTENCE 18 CONGRUENCE OF SOUND-FORMS IN LANGUAGES WITH GRAMMATICAL REQUIREMENTS 19 MAIN DIVISION OF LANGUAGES, ACCORDING TO THE PURITY OF THEIR FORMATIVE PRINCIPLE 20 CHARACTER OF LANGUAGES; POETRY AND PROSE 21 POWER OF LANGUAGES 22 RETROSPECT ON THE COURSE OF THE INQUIRY SO FAR; LANGUAGES THAT DEVIATE FROM PURELY REGULAR FORM 23 NATURE AND ORIGIN OF LESS PERFECT LANGUAGE-STRUCTURE: THE SEMITIC LANGUAGES; THE DELAWARE LANGUAGE 24 NATURE AND ORIGIN OF LESS PERFECT LANGUAGE-STRUCTURE: THE CHINESE LANGUAGE; THE BURMESE LANGUAGE 25 WHETHER THE POLYSYLLABIC LANGUAGE- STRUCTURE HAS EVOLVED FROM THE MONOSYLLABIC �g�Z�R���c���