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The world's major languages
Title
The world's major languages / edited by Bernard Comrie.
ISBN
9781138184824
1138184829
9781315644936
Edition
Third edition.
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
xvii, 933 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Notes
"First edition published by Croom Helm 1987."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 31, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Partial 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
Romanian
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
Vietnamese
The Sino-Tibetan languages
Chinese
Burmese
Japanese
Korean
Austronesian languages
Malay-Indonesian
Javanese
Tagalog
Niger-Kordofanian (Niger-Congo) languages
Yoruba
Swahili and the Bantu languages.
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