Italian dialects, number of, [58], [197].
natural growth of, [67].
real sources of, [69].
Italians, the, indebted to the Greeks for the very rudiments of civilization, [101].
Italic class of languages, [196].
Italy, dialects spoken in, before the rise of Rome, [197].
Its, as a possessive pronoun, introduction of, [46].
Jerome, St., his opinion that Hebrew was the primitive language of mankind, [132].
Jews, literary idiom of the, in the century preceding and following the Christian era, [277].
and from the fourth to the tenth centuries, [277].