Langtry, MRS

EMELIE CHARLOTTE (LE BRETON), b. 1853. English actre . Language. See PHILOLOGY. e . IMG:content-1013.jpg:[blocks in formation] languages of the monosyllabic type; and finally a more or le uncla ified ma , such as Malayan, Australian, the Hamitic and other African dialects, and the great American group. Basque, ancient Etruscan, and some others, may count as uncla ified. Cla ification by form, or Morphology, partially given above, is based on order of development, and so on relative complexity of structure, or amount of differentiation. Max Müller distinguished three general cla es: (1) Roots are themselves words, and language is a series of unconnected hints; (2) a root, losing independence, is joined to another root, forming a new word; (3) the compound may change both roots entirely.