And see the article Syriac Language (Vol. 26, p. 309), by Norman McLean, lecturer in Aramaic, Cambridge.
Hamitic
The article Hamitic Languages (Vol. 12, p. 893) is by Dr. W. Max Müller, professor in the Reformed Episcopal Seminary, Philadelphia. See also the article Egypt, Language and Writing (Vol. 9, p. 57), by Dr. Francis Llewelyn Griffith, reader in Egyptology, Oxford; and the articles: Ethiopia (Vol. 9, p. 845), by Dr. D. S. Margoliouth, professor of Arabic, Oxford; Berber, Language (Vol. 3, p. 766) and Kabyles (Vol. 15, p. 625) for the Libyan group of the Hamitic languages.
Other Tongues
On the mono-syllabic languages see China, Language (Vol. 6, p. 216), by Dr. H. A. Giles, professor of Chinese, Cambridge, and Lionel Giles, assistant Oriental Department, British Museum;
Japan, Language (Vol. 15, p. 167), by Captain Frank Brinkley, late editor of the Japan Mail; and
Tibeto-Burman Languages (Vol. 26, p. 928), by Dr. Sten Konow, professor in the University of Christiania.
The article Ural-Altaic (Vol. 27, p. 784), by Dr. Augustus Henry Keane, late professor of Hindustani, University College, London, gives a general account of the relationship of Turkish, Finno-Ugrian, Mongol and Manchu; and is supplemented by the articles Turks, Language (Vol. 27, p. 472), by Sir Charles Eliot, vice-chancellor of Sheffield University; Finno-Ugrian (Vol. 10, p. 388), on language of Finns, Lapps and Samoyedes, Hungary Language (Vol. 13, p. 924), on Magyar, both by Sir Charles Eliot; and Mongols, Language (Vol. 18, p. 719), by Dr. Bernhard Jülg, late professor at Innsbruck.
On the non-Aryan languages of Southern Africa see the article Tamils (Vol. 26, p. 388), by Dr. Reinhold Rost, late secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society.
For languages of Malay-Polynesia and other Oceanic peoples see Malays, Language (Vol. 17, p. 477), by Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, colonial secretary of Ceylon, and joint-author of A Dictionary of the Malay Language; and the articles Polynesia, Samoa, Java, Hawaii, etc.