Strictly for Linguistic Historians
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Although the date of this edition is 2002, the book is a straight word for word reprint of the 1890 edtition of a book written in 1881. It is, therefore, gloriously out of date and horrendously stilted. Being the work of a Nineteenth Century London Linguist, it reads more like Dickens, full of out-dated attitudes. While certainly a marvellous achievement some 120 years ago, today it is of little interest to those learning arabic and the simplificatation mentioned to in the title is really quite a hilarious joke! It gets one star because it contains the Hindustani and Persian alphabets which did prove useful to me by way of passing interest. Don't buy this unless your writing a paper on the history of language education or some aspect of the history of linguistics.
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