RASK, RASMUS. - IDENTIFYING THE RELATION BETWEEN SINHALESE AND SANSKRIT.

Singalesisk Skriftlære.

Kolombo (Colombo), 1821. With orig. blank blue backwrapper (frontwrapper lacks). (2),16 pp. Titlepage brownspotted.

First edition. In this importent work Rask "identified Sinhalese as a speech belonging to the same class as Sanskrit and added that Tamil belonged to quite a different class. Since then the subject has been studied and discusses by various scholars, and it is established beyond doubt that Sinhalese is an Indo-Aryan language."

Order-nr.: 50911