The Lord's Prayer in Three Hundred Languages: Comprising the Leading Languages and Their Principal Dialects Throughout the World, with the Places Where Spoken
The Lord's Prayer in Three Hundred Languages: Comprising the Leading Languages and Their Principal Dialects Throughout the World, with the Places Where Spoken
Excerpt from The Lord's Prayer in Three Hundred Languages: Comprising the Leading Languages and Their Principal Dialects Throughout the World, With the Places Where Spoken When, in the earlier years of the present century, attempts were made at surveying and classifying the then known tongues of the globe, the lord's prayer was - for its terse simplicity, its typical Christian spirit, and the generally known tenor of its wording - selected as the most appropriate text to serve as a representative of each language and ...
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Excerpt from The Lord's Prayer in Three Hundred Languages: Comprising the Leading Languages and Their Principal Dialects Throughout the World, With the Places Where Spoken When, in the earlier years of the present century, attempts were made at surveying and classifying the then known tongues of the globe, the lord's prayer was - for its terse simplicity, its typical Christian spirit, and the generally known tenor of its wording - selected as the most appropriate text to serve as a representative of each language and dialect. But while Adelung - following in the wake of Conrad Gesner (1555) and our own Chamber layne (1715) - brought together in his well-known Mithridates (berlin, 1808-17) a vast number of speci mens of the Lord's Prayer, solely with a glottological object in view, A. Auer's Sprachenhalle (vienna, 1844 containing the Lord's Prayer in 200 languages, was mainly intended to exhibit the then unrivalled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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