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It is, however, to be remarked, that all that was written before Professor Delitzsch's researches were made known; and that really a great mass of the conjecture and speculation has been purely in the air undertaken without any reference to the plain terms of the text to be interpreted.
By such slurring of sounds the syllabary is reduced far below its ideal limits; yet even so it retains three or four hundred characters. In point of fact, such a work as Professor Delitzsch's Assyrian Grammar presents signs for three hundred and thirty-four syllables, together with sundry alternative signs and determinatives to tax the memory of the would-be reader of Assyrian.
Wetzstein's earlier record of similar folk-songs appears in Delitzsch's Commentary on Canticles Hohelied und Koheleth, 1875 and also in the Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie, v, p. 287.
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