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Families of Speech is a book containing four lectures delivered by Frederic William Farrar before the Royal Institution of Great Britain in March 1869. The lectures explore the origins and evolution of human language, examining the similarities and differences between various... Read Full Overview

Families of Speech is a book that contains four lectures delivered by Frederic William Farrar before the Royal Institution of Great Britain in March 1869. The book was published in 1870 and explores the origins and development of different families of speech, including the Indo-European,... Read Full Overview

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