Note to the Translation
 Translator's Foreword
 Preface by Alexander von Humboldt
 Transliteration of Foreign Alphabets
 Objective of the Present Treatise
 1. The Course of Human Development
 2. Effect of Exceptional Intellectual Power: Civilization, Culture, and Education
 3. Cooperation of Individuals and Nations
 4. A More Detailed Consideration of Language
 5. Morphology of Languages
 6. Nature and Properties of Language
 7. The Phonetic System of Languages
 8. Internal Linguistic Morphology and Structure
 9. The Relationship of Phonemic Quantity to Intellectual Concept
 10. The Linguistic Process: Etymology and Morphology
 11. Isolation, Inflection, and Agglutination of Words
 12 The Word Unit: The Incorporative Capacity of Language
 13. Accentuation
 14. The Incorporative System of Languages: Syntactical Sentence Components
 15. Congruence of Phonetic Patterns of Languages with Grammatical Requirements
 16. Structural Differences Between Languages
 17. The Character of Languages
 18. Independent Synthesis in Languages
 19. A Review of the Present Investigation
 20. Less Developed Linguistic Structure: The Semitic and Delaware Indian Languages
 21. Less Developed Linguistic Structure: The Chinese and Burmese Languages
 22. The Origin of Polysyllabic Structure
 Notes
 Bibliography
 Index