ABSTRACT
DHEdiversityofracesofmenandlanguagesisafactwhichstruckalltheancients.In theinteriorofBabylonitselfatthetimeofthefirst Chaldeanempiredifferentlanguageswerespoken, whichwerehardlyintelligibleinanyotherpart buttheonewheretheywerespoken.'.JEschylus• alsocallstheinhabitantsofthistown1rap,p,uc:ror ox'Aor,"amixedcrowdofeveryorigin."Andall theedictsofthekingsofBabylonmentionedinthe bookofDaniel3beginwiththesewords,"Beit knowntoyou,0people,nations,andlanguages,..." ThevastcommerceofBabylonandChaldeaboth byseaandland,asalsothegreatinfluxofcaptives whowerebroughtintothecountrybythecon queringkings,suchasNebuchadnezzar,wasan
importantinfluenceintheproductionofthisvariety inraceandlanguage.
