The world's major languages / (Record no. 29924)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781138184824 (hardback : alk. paper)
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Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9781315644936 (ebook)
International Standard Book Number 9781138184824
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Language English
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082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 410
Edition number 23
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Personal name Comrie, Bernard
245 04 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The world's major languages /
Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Bernard Comrie.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement Third edition.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London : Taylor and Francis,
Name of publisher, distributor, etc ROUTLEDGE
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2018.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii, 933 pages ;
Dimensions 26 cm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note "First edition published by Croom Helm 1987."
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Contents Chapter Introduction / Bernard Comrie --<br/>chapter 1 Indo-European Languages / Philip Baldi Pierluigi Cuzzolin --<br/>chapter 2 Germanic Languages / John A. Hawkins --<br/>chapter 3 English / Edward Finegan --<br/>chapter 4 German / John A. Hawkins --<br/>chapter 5 Dutch / Jan G. Kooij Geert Booij --<br/>chapter 6 Danish, Norwegian and Swedish / Einar Haugen Lars Borin --<br/>chapter 7 Latin and the Italic Languages / R.G.G. Coleman James Clackson --<br/>chapter 8 Romance Languages / John N. Green --<br/>chapter 9 French / Monique Monville-Burston Linda R. Waugh --<br/>chapter 10 Spanish / John N. Green --<br/>chapter 11 Portuguese / Stephen Parkinson --<br/>chapter 12 Italian / Nigel Vincent --<br/>chapter 13 Romanian / Graham Mallinson Oana Uță Bărbulescu --<br/>chapter 14 Slavonic Languages / Bernard Comrie --<br/>chapter 15 Russian / Bernard Comrie --<br/>chapter 16 Polish / Gerald Stone --<br/>chapter 17 Czech and Slovak / David Short --<br/>chapter 18 Serbo-Croat --<br/>Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian / Greville Corbett Wayles Browne --<br/>chapter 19 Greek / Brian D. Joseph --<br/>chapter 20 Indo-Aryan Languages / George Cardona Silvia Luraghi --<br/>chapter 21 Sanskrit / George Cardona Silvia Luraghi --<br/>chapter 22 Hindi-Urdu / Yamuna Kachru Tej K. Bhatia --<br/>chapter 23 Bengali / M.H. Klaiman Aditi Lahiri --<br/>chapter 24 Iranian Languages / J.R. Payne Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari --<br/>chapter 25 Persian / Gernot L. Windfuhr Carina Jahani --<br/>chapter 26 Pashto / D.N. MacKenzie Anne Boyle David --<br/>chapter 27 Uralic Languages / Robert Austerlitz Bernard Comrie --<br/>chapter 28 Hungarian / Daniel Abondolo --<br/>chapter 29 Finnish / Michael Branch Ritva Laury --<br/>chapter 30 Turkish and the Turkic Languages / Jaklin Kornfilt --<br/>chapter 31 Afroasiatic Languages / Robert Hetzron Zygmunt Frajzyngier --<br/>chapter 32 Semitic Languages / Robert Hetzron Alan S. Kaye Ghil'ad Zuckermann --<br/>chapter 33 Arabic / Alan S. Kaye --<br/>chapter 34 Hebrew / Robert Hetzron Alan S. Kaye W. Randall Garr --<br/>chapter 35 Amharic / Grover Hudson --<br/>chapter 36 Hausa and the Chadic Languages / Paul Newman --<br/>chapter 37 Tamil and the Dravidian Languages / Sanford B. Steever --<br/>chapter 38 Tai Languages / David Strecker Pittayawat Pittayaporn --<br/>chapter 39 Thai / Thomas John Hudak --<br/>chapter 40 Vietnamese / Ðình-Hoà Nguyễn Mark J. Alves Hồng Cổn Nguyễn --<br/>chapter 41 The Sino-Tibetan Languages / Scott DeLancey --<br/>chapter 42 Chinese / Charles N. Li Sandra A. Thompson --<br/>chapter 43 Burmese / Julian K. Wheatley --<br/>chapter 44 Japanese / Masayoshi Shibatani --<br/>chapter 45 Korean / Nam-Kil Kim --<br/>chapter 46 Austronesian Languages / Ross Clark --<br/>chapter 47 Malay-Indonesian 1 / Uri Tadmor --<br/>chapter 48 Javanese / Michael P. Oakes Bambang Kaswanti Purwo --<br/>chapter 49 Tagalog / Paul Schachter Lawrence A. Reid --<br/>chapter 50 Niger-Kordofanian (Niger-Congo) Languages / Douglas Pulleyblank --<br/>chapter 51 Yoruba / Douglas Pulleyblank Ọlanikẹ Ọla Orie --<br/>chapter 52 Swahili and the Bantu Languages / Benji Wald Hannah Gibson.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc <br/>"The World's Major Languages features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. This revised edition includes updated bibliographies for each chapter and up-to-date census figures. 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 Read more...
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Language and languages.
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Personal name Comrie, Bernard,
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Koha item type General Books
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
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