Concise Compendium of the World's Languages

by Campbell; George L

• ISBN13: 9780415160490
• ISBN10: 0415160499
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-05-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

TheThe Concise Compendium of the World's Languagesprovides clear snapshots of over one hundred languages. Drawn from the more comprehensive two volume Compendium of the World's Languages, the articles selected for this volume discuss most languages spoken today by populations of at least five to ten million people, as well as minor languages that figure prominently in the contemporary socio-political context. This combination allows little-known languages, such as Akan, Navajo, Basque and Zulu, to figure prominently alongside the mainstream languages such as Arabic, French, Chinese and Russian. Each entry considers the phonological, morphological and lexical features of the language it discusses. Written for language buffs who want to know-in broad outline-how lots of languages work, this terrific book compiles loads of information in one affordable volume. George Campbell is a former BBC World Service Linguist and translator.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Abbreviations	ix
Afrikaans	1	(5)
Akan or Twi	6	(5)
Albanian	11	(7)
Amharic	18	(6)
Arabic	24	(9)
Armenian, Modern Standard	33	(6)
Assamese	39	(5)
Balinese	44	(4)
Baltic Languages	48	(1)
Bantu Languages	49	(9)
Basque	58	(6)
Belorussian	64	(5)
Bengali (banla)	69	(6)
Berber	75	(5)
Breton	80	(7)
Buginese	87	(5)
Bulgarian	92	(6)
Burmese	98	(5)
Cambodian (Khmer)	103	(5)
Catalan	108	(5)
Chinese, Classical (Wenli)	113	(5)
Chinese, Modern Standard	118	(6)
Czech	124	(6)
Danish	130	(5)
Dravidian Languages	135	(2)
Dutch	137	(6)
English	143	(14)
Estonian	157	(6)
Finnish	163	(7)
French	170	(8)
Fulani (Fulbe)	178	(5)
Fulbe see Fulani Georgian	183	(6)
German	189	(8)
Greek, Modern Standard	197	(7)
Guarani	204	(4)
Gujarati	208	(5)
Hausa	213	(6)
Hebrew	219	(6)
Hindi	225	(5)
Hungarian	230	(6)
Icelandic	236	(6)
Igbo	242	(5)
Indo-European Languages	247	(2)
Indonesian	249	(5)
Italian	254	(6)
Japanese, Modern Standard	260	(7)
Javanese	267	(5)
Kanarese see Kannada Kannada (Kanarese)	272	(5)
Kashmiri	277	(5)
Khmer see Cambodian Korean	282	(6)
Kurdish	288	(5)
Lahnda	293	(5)
Lao	298	(5)
Lappish	303	(6)
Latvian	309	(5)
Lithuanian	314	(5)
Macedonian	319	(5)
Malayalam	324	(5)
Maori	329	(4)
Mapudungu	333	(6)
Marathi	339	(6)
Mongolian, Modern	345	(5)
Nama	350	(4)
Navajo	354	(6)
Nepali	360	(5)
Nivkh	365	(4)
Norwegian	369	(5)
Panjabi	374	(5)
Pashto	379	(5)
Persian	384	(5)
Polish	389	(7)
Polynesian Languages	396	(5)
Portuguese	401	(6)
Quechua	407	(6)
Romanian	413	(6)
Romany	419	(6)
Russian	425	(10)
Samoan	435	(5)
Sanskrit	440	(8)
Semitic Languages	448	(6)
Serbo-Croat	454	(7)
Sindhi	461	(4)
Sinhala see Sinhalese Sinhalese (Sinhala)	465	(5)
Slavonic Languages	470	(4)
Slovak	474	(4)
Slovene	478	(6)
Somali	484	(6)
Spanish	490	(7)
Sundanese	497	(4)
Swahili	501	(6)
Swedish	507	(5)
Tagalog	512	(6)
Tamil	518	(7)
Telugu	525	(6)
Thai	531	(5)
Tibetan	536	(7)
Turkic Languages	543	(4)
Turkish	547	(7)
Twi see Akan Ukrainian	554	(6)
Uralic Languages	560	(2)
Urdu	562	(1)
Uzbek	563	(4)
Vietnamese	567	(6)
Welsh	573	(9)
Wenli see Chinese, Classical Yiddish	582	(6)
Yoruba	588	(5)
Zulu	593	(8)
Appendix of Scripts	601	(54)
Bibliography	655