术语“阿尔泰语系”的详细信息

英译术语:

Altaic family

汉语语境:

威廉·琼斯除了提出著名的印欧语系构想，还有大量关于语言历史比较的论述，形成了多种有共同来源的语言族群的假说，构成了印欧语系、芬兰乌戈尔语系、阿尔泰语系、含闪语系等的雏形，并提出了语言历史比较研究的一些原则和方法，初步奠定了历史比较语言学的理论基础。这些语系构想和理论标志着历史比较语言学的诞生。

英语语境:

In addition to his famous formulation on Indian-Aryan language family, Sir. William Jones had shaped the research in comparative and historical linguistics, raising a series of hypotheses on the language families of the same stock, which includes Indo-European family, Finno-Ugric Family, Altaic family and Hamito-Semitic family and so on. He wrote a treatise meticulously dealing with ancient Persian with particular reference to the history of the language and the comparisons, and established some theoretical principles and methods.