The world's major languages / edited by Bernard Comrie.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Taylor and Francis, ROUTLEDGE 2018.Edition: Third editionDescription: xvii, 933 pages ; 26 cmISBN: - 9781138184824 (hardback : alk. paper)
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| 407.1 BAR Qualitative research topics in language teacher education / | 409.54 SUB South Asian languages : | 410 CLA Indo-European Linguistics - An Introducton | 410 COM The world's major languages / | 410 LYO Language and linguistics : | 410 MCG Linguistics : | 410 MCG Linguistics : |
"First edition published by Croom Helm 1987."
Chapter Introduction / Bernard Comrie --
chapter 1 Indo-European Languages / Philip Baldi Pierluigi Cuzzolin --
chapter 2 Germanic Languages / John A. Hawkins --
chapter 3 English / Edward Finegan --
chapter 4 German / John A. Hawkins --
chapter 5 Dutch / Jan G. Kooij Geert Booij --
chapter 6 Danish, Norwegian and Swedish / Einar Haugen Lars Borin --
chapter 7 Latin and the Italic Languages / R.G.G. Coleman James Clackson --
chapter 8 Romance Languages / John N. Green --
chapter 9 French / Monique Monville-Burston Linda R. Waugh --
chapter 10 Spanish / John N. Green --
chapter 11 Portuguese / Stephen Parkinson --
chapter 12 Italian / Nigel Vincent --
chapter 13 Romanian / Graham Mallinson Oana Uță Bărbulescu --
chapter 14 Slavonic Languages / Bernard Comrie --
chapter 15 Russian / Bernard Comrie --
chapter 16 Polish / Gerald Stone --
chapter 17 Czech and Slovak / David Short --
chapter 18 Serbo-Croat --
Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian / Greville Corbett Wayles Browne --
chapter 19 Greek / Brian D. Joseph --
chapter 20 Indo-Aryan Languages / George Cardona Silvia Luraghi --
chapter 21 Sanskrit / George Cardona Silvia Luraghi --
chapter 22 Hindi-Urdu / Yamuna Kachru Tej K. Bhatia --
chapter 23 Bengali / M.H. Klaiman Aditi Lahiri --
chapter 24 Iranian Languages / J.R. Payne Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari --
chapter 25 Persian / Gernot L. Windfuhr Carina Jahani --
chapter 26 Pashto / D.N. MacKenzie Anne Boyle David --
chapter 27 Uralic Languages / Robert Austerlitz Bernard Comrie --
chapter 28 Hungarian / Daniel Abondolo --
chapter 29 Finnish / Michael Branch Ritva Laury --
chapter 30 Turkish and the Turkic Languages / Jaklin Kornfilt --
chapter 31 Afroasiatic Languages / Robert Hetzron Zygmunt Frajzyngier --
chapter 32 Semitic Languages / Robert Hetzron Alan S. Kaye Ghil'ad Zuckermann --
chapter 33 Arabic / Alan S. Kaye --
chapter 34 Hebrew / Robert Hetzron Alan S. Kaye W. Randall Garr --
chapter 35 Amharic / Grover Hudson --
chapter 36 Hausa and the Chadic Languages / Paul Newman --
chapter 37 Tamil and the Dravidian Languages / Sanford B. Steever --
chapter 38 Tai Languages / David Strecker Pittayawat Pittayaporn --
chapter 39 Thai / Thomas John Hudak --
chapter 40 Vietnamese / Ðình-Hoà Nguyễn Mark J. Alves Hồng Cổn Nguyễn --
chapter 41 The Sino-Tibetan Languages / Scott DeLancey --
chapter 42 Chinese / Charles N. Li Sandra A. Thompson --
chapter 43 Burmese / Julian K. Wheatley --
chapter 44 Japanese / Masayoshi Shibatani --
chapter 45 Korean / Nam-Kil Kim --
chapter 46 Austronesian Languages / Ross Clark --
chapter 47 Malay-Indonesian 1 / Uri Tadmor --
chapter 48 Javanese / Michael P. Oakes Bambang Kaswanti Purwo --
chapter 49 Tagalog / Paul Schachter Lawrence A. Reid --
chapter 50 Niger-Kordofanian (Niger-Congo) Languages / Douglas Pulleyblank --
chapter 51 Yoruba / Douglas Pulleyblank Ọlanikẹ Ọla Orie --
chapter 52 Swahili and the Bantu Languages / Benji Wald Hannah Gibson.
"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...
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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