"Lappish" Quotes from Famous Books
... languages are known also as the Turanian, from Turan, a name of Central Asia, and the principal varieties of this family are the Tartar, Finnish, Lappish, Hungarian, and Caucasian. They are classed together almost exclusively on the ground of correspondence in their grammatical structure, but they are bound together by ties of far less strength than those which connect the inflected languages. ... — Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta |