V. The Albanian; including the Geghian and the Toskian dialects spoken in Illyria and Epirus.
VI. The Slavonic or Windic branch is divided into two dialects; (a) the Lettic, including the Lithuanian, Old Prussian, and Lettish; (b) the Slavonic Proper, which is again divided into two branches, termed the Eastern and Western.
The Eastern dialect includes the Russian (Great, Little, and White Russian), the Servian, Kroatian, and Slovenian; and the Bulgarian, or in its oldest form, the Ecclesiastical Slavonic.
The Western dialect includes the Polish, the Bohemian, the Polabian, and the Lusatian.
(B) The Semitic Family (so called from Shem, one of the sons of Noah) is not so widely extended as the Arian family, but the nations composing it were the first to appear upon the theatre of history. It comprises the following branches:—
I. The Arabic, which includes the Ethiopian or Abissinian and the Maltese.
II. The Chaldean, which includes the Old Babylonian, the Chaldee of Babylon and Mesopotamia, the Chaldee of Daniel and of the Targums, and the Syrian (Aramaic).
III. The Hebrew, the language of Canaan, which includes the Phœnician and Carthaginian.
IV. The Berber dialects, which are spoken in Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Fez. The Haussa and Galla dialects are now considered as Semitic idioms.