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Roth, Cecil

(Encyclopedia)Roth, Cecil, 1899–1970, Jewish historian and educator, b. London. He was educated at Oxford (Ph.D., 1924) and was reader in Jewish Studies there from 1939 to 1964. Thereafter he was visiting profess...

Abbot, George

(Encyclopedia)Abbot, George, 1562–1633, archbishop of Canterbury. He was one of the collaborators (from the Univ. of Oxford) on the Authorized Version of the Bible and was an authority on geography. He became arc...

Khoisan

(Encyclopedia)Khoisan: see African languages. ...

Hittite

(Encyclopedia)Hittite: see Anatolian languages. ...

Romanic

(Encyclopedia)Romanic: see Romance languages.

Nilo-Saharan

(Encyclopedia)Nilo-Saharan: see African languages. ...

Zulu language

(Encyclopedia)Zulu language: see African languages. ...

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