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The Languages of the World

by Miller; Kirk

ISBN13: 9780415250047
ISBN10: 0415250048
eBook ISBN(s): 9781134532872
Edition: 3rd
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Copyright: 2002-05-10
Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Written with the non-specialist in mind, this third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide's attractive style and layout, delightful original passages and exotic scripts will continue to fascinate all language scholars and linguists. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countries and current data on populations. This indispensable resource contains information on nearly 600 languages-individual descriptions of 200 languages with sample passages and English translations; concise notes on where each language is spoken and its history, alphabet and pronunciation; coverage of every country in the world and its main language and speaker numbers; English borrowings from other languages; an introduction to language families. This will be your passport to the speech of the world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

vii

Preface

ix

PART I Language families of the world

1

(34)

Chart

2

(8)

Indo-European languages

10

(6)

Uralic languages

16

(2)

Altaic languages

18

(1)

Caucasian languages

19

(1)

Dravidian languages

20

(1)

Munda languages

21

(1)

Sino-Tibetan languages

22

(1)

Mon-Khmer languages

22

(1)

Austronesian languages

23

(1)

Papuan languages

24

(1)

Australian languages

25

(1)

Paleo-Asiatic languages

25

(1)

Eskimo-Aleut languages

26

(1)

Niger-Congo languages

26

(1)

Afro-Asiatic languages

27

(2)

Chari-Nile languages

29

(1)

Khoisan languages

30

(1)

American Indian languages

30

(2)

Artificial languages

32

(1)

Pidgin and creole languages

32

(3)

PART II Individual languages

35

(302)

Europe

37

(72)

Former Soviet Union

109

(42)

Middle East

151

(18)

Asia

169

(72)

Oceania

241

(8)

Western Hemisphere

249

(38)

Africa

287

(46)

An artificial language

333

(4)

PART III Country-by-country survey

337

(32)

Sources of individual passages

369

(8)

Index of languages and language families

377

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