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9780415353397

The World's Major Languages

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415353397

  • ISBN10:

    0415353394

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2009-01-15
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This volume features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language's history and cultural role. This second edition has been updated and revised. Two new languages, Amharic and Javanese, have been included. This accessible volume will appeal to anyone with an interest in linguistics. Key features: Attention is paid to both grammatical and sociolinguistic features Attention is concentrated on the world's major languages Designed to be accessible to all readers with an interest in language.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Indo-European Languages
Germanic Languages
English
German
Dutch
Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
Latin and the Italic Languages
Romance Languages
French
Spanish
Portuguese
Italian
Rumanian
Slavonic Languages
Russian
Polish
Czech and Slovak
Serbo-Croat: Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian
Greek
Indo-Aryan Languages
Sanskrit
Hindi-Urdu
Bengali
Iranian Languages
Persian
Pashto
Uralic Languages
Hungarian
Finnish
Turkish and the Turkic Languages
Afroasiatic Languages
Semitic Languages
Arabic
Hebrew
Amharic
Hausa and the Chadic Languages
Tamil and the Dravidian Languages
Tai Languages
Thai
Vietnameseinh
Sino-Tibetan Languages
Chinese
Burmese
Japanese
Korean
Austronesian Languages
Malay-Indonesian
Javanese
Tagalog
Niger-kordafian Languages
Yoruba
Swahili and Bantu
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