Armenian Language and Literature (Vol. 2, p. 571), by Dr. F. C. Conybeare, author of The Ancient Armenian Texts of Aristotle, etc.

Lithuanians and Letts, Language and Literature (Vol. 16, p. 790); Slavs: Language (Vol. 25, p. 233), by Ellis Hovell Minns, Lecturer in palaeography, Cambridge, with a table of alphabets; and supplementary information in the articles Russia, Bulgaria, Servia, Poland, Bohemia, Croatia-Slavonia, Slovaks, Slovenes, Sorbs, Kashubes, Polabs.

Albania, Language (Vol. 1, p. 485), by J. D. Bourchier, correspondent of The Times (London) in South-eastern Europe.

Semitic

The material on the Semitic group is principally in the article Semitic Languages (Vol. 24, p. 617), by Theodor Nöldeke, late professor of Oriental languages at Strassburg. This article deals with:

Assyrian—see also Cuneiform (Vol. 7, p. 629);

Hebrew—see also Hebrew Language (Vol. 13, p. 167), by Arthur Ernest Cowley, sub-librarian of the Bodleian, Oxford;

Phoenician—see also Phoenicia (Vol. 21, p. 449), by the Rev. Dr. George Albert Cook, author of Text Book of North-Semitic Inscriptions, etc.;

Aramaic—and see the separate article Aramaic Languages (Vol. 2, p. 317);

Arabic, Sabaean, Mahri and Socotri, Ethiopic, Tigre and Tigrina, Amharic, Harari and Gurague.