Was there not some other Oriental language he might teach?
For the first time in my life had an opportunity to learn an oriental language and I jumped at the chance.
He later became professor of oriental languages in the university.
The old one said something in an Oriental language.
He acquired great reputation for his knowledge of the oriental languages.
Later he served as an associate professor of Oriental languages (1844).
Tombstone didn't have enough experience with Oriental languages to be able to tell.
He studied oriental languages and theology, but soon became interested in natural history.
His school announced a government program for volunteers who wanted to learn difficult Oriental languages, but he was too young then to apply.
Oriental languages, however, were a special and limited problem.