Mithridates, oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde

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Johann Christoph Adelung
…was still at work on Mithridates, oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde, 3 vol. (1806–17; “Mithridates, or General Linguistics”), in which he affirmed the relation of Sanskrit and the major European languages and also collected the Lord’s Prayer in some 500 languages and dialects; the work was completed by Johann Severin Vater (1772–1826).
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…was still at work on Mithridates, oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde, 3 vol. (1806–17; “Mithridates, or General Linguistics”), in which he affirmed the relation of Sanskrit and the major European languages and also collected the Lord’s Prayer in some 500 languages and dialects; the work was completed by Johann Severin Vater (1772–1826).
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