I. East Siberian, or Eastern Groiip : a, Jnkagir; 6, Tchuksht aud Coreak; c, Kamtchatkan ; d, Giliak.
II. (A.) A Itaic Group : «, Tuugusiau; 6, Mautchu ; c, Aino, or Kurile; f7, Aleu- tian.
(B.) Mongolian Lanr/uarie-i : a, Mongol ; b, Buriat ; c, Kalmuck.
(C.) Tartar: rt,.Iakut; 6, Siberian Tartar; c, Kirtrhise Tartar; rf.Bnsh- kii' aud Meshtcherik ; e, Nojraian and Knmiik ; /, Turkme- uian ; g, Aderbeilsliau ; h, Kazan Tartar ; i, Tchuvash.
(D.) Snmoiede: a, Jarak ; b, Tawgy, Samoiede. (E.) Finnish Family: a, Ufiriaii. a, Ostjak; b, Wogiil.
/3, Bulgarian. a, Tcheremissian ; &, Mordnin.
7, Permian. a, Permian ; 6, Sirenian ; c, Wotjakian. d, Finnish Branch :
a, Finnish in the narrower sense, with
1, Carelian ; 2, Tschiuliaii ; 3, Wotian ; 4, Olonet/.ian.
b, Esthoniau ; c, Liviau; d, Krewingiau ; e, Lappouete.
III. Jenixcan Group :
rt, Jeniseo, Ostjakian ; b, Kottian.
I V. Caucasian Group :
a, Georgic; b, l.esi;hic; c, Ristic; d, Tclierkess Fauiilie--.
V. Sheniitic Group: a, Hebrew ; 6, Arabic.
VI. Asiatic Group : a, Persian ; b, Kurdish ; c, Armenian ; d, Ossitirian.
VII. European Group:
(A.) Slavonic Faniili/. a, Russian ; b, Polish ; c, Servian ; d, Tschechian ; e, Bul- garian.
(6.) Lithuanian Famihi. a, Lithuanian and Samogitiau ; b, Lettish.
(C.) Germanic Familp. a, German ; 6, English ; c, Swedish ; d, Dutch.
(D.) Groico-Ijatin Family. a, Greek; b, Albanian; c, Latin; ii, Italian; c, French;/, Uoumau.
These are. the representatives of the Russian empire. As to the versions made for these different families, oidy a few enjoy this privilege. Following our table, we must pass over the East Siberians, or Eastern (Jroup, as none of these people, who are but partially Christians, have the Scriptures in their vernacular. The same
must be said of the Ainos, or Kuriles, belonging to the Altaic, and of a great many others belonging to the other groups. For a better view, we will speak of the different versions in alphabetical order; and with the help of the linguistic table the reader will be casil3' guided as to which family the respective version be- longs to. As the most important versions have either been given already, or will be given, in this Ci/clopwdia, the reader will be referred to them.
1. Albanian.
2. Aleutian is the language of the inhabitants of the Aleutian Islands. For the most part, they belong to the Greek Church, whicli had the Gospel of St. "Matthew print- ed for thern in the Aleutian, according to the translation prepared by priest John Venianiinoff, in the year 1840, in parallel columns with the Kussiau version.
3. Arabic.
4. Armenian.
5. Bulgarian. See Slavonic Versions.
6. Buriat. The Buriats, residing on Lake Baikal, and numbering about 150,000 individuals, are Lamai.-ts ; some are Christians. At a very early lime, prince Gallitzin, pres- ident of the Russian Bible Society, wrote to the governor of Irkutsk, requesting him to send two learned Biuiats to St. Petersburg for the purpose of assisting Dr. Schmidt in the translation of the TS'ew Test. Two saisangs, or Buriat nobles, accordinijly repaired to St. Petersburg, aud, with the consent of their prince and lama, engaged in the work of translation. The Divine Word was blessed in their conversion, and in a letter addressed to their chief they avowed their faith in Jesus. In 1818 the Gospel of St. Matthew \vas published, which was soon followed by oth- er parts of the New Test. Siuce 1840 the British and For- eign Bible Society possesses a translation of the entire Bi- ble, which was prepared at the expense of that society.
7. Dutch. S. English.
9. Esihonian. Esthonia is a maritime government in the north-west of European Russia, and forms one of Ihe Baltic provinces. The language is spoken in two dia- lects— the Doipat and Reval Esthonian. The former is spoken in South Esthonia, and the latter prevails in the North. Almost all the Esthouians are of the Lutheran persuasion. As early as 168(5 they received the entire New Test, in the Esihonian language, translated by John Fisch- er, a German professor of divinity and general superinten- dent of Livonia. This tianslation was executed at the command of Charles XI. A version of the Old Test., made by the same translator, aided by Gosekenins, appeared in 4to in 1GS9 ; but it is uncertain in which dialect these early versions were written, although it was understood through- out Esth(niia. Later versions considered both dialects, and thus we have two versions — the Reval Entlioniau (q. v.) and the Dorpat Esthonian. As to the latter dialect, a New Test, was printed in Riga in IT'JT, which edition was soon exhausted. In 1815, through the exertions of Dr. Paterson, 5000 copies of Ihe New Test, were printed by the British and Foreign Bible Society; and in 18'24 the Russian Bible Society had SOOO copies printed, while an- other editi<in was undertaken in 1S3G by the Dorpat Bible Society. In the same year a version of the Psalms, trans- lated from the Hebrew by the Rev. Ferdinand Meyer, of Carolen, was piinled by the aid of the parent society, and the number of copies of the New Test, tosrether with Ihe Psalms which has been distributed is, according to the hist report of the British and Foreign Bible Society (18TS), 35,000.