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245 0 4 _aThe World's major languages /
_cedited by Bernard Comrie.
250 _a2nd ed.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2009.
300 _axvi, 911 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c26 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIndo-European languages / Philip Baldi -- Germanic languages / John A. Hawkins -- English / Edward Finegan -- German / John A. Hawkins -- Dutch / Jan G. Kooij -- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish / Einar Haugen -- Latin and the Italic languages / R.G.G. Coleman -- Romance languages / John N. Green -- French / Linda R. Waugh, Monique Monville-Burston -- Spanish / John N. Green -- Portuguese / Stephen Parkinson -- Italian / Nigel Vincent -- Rumanian / Graham Mallinson -- Slavonic languages / Bernard Comrie -- Russian / Bernard Comrie -- Polish / Gerald Stone -- Czech and Slovak / David Short -- Serbo-Croat : Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian / Greville Corbett, Wayles Browne -- Greek / Brian D. Joseph -- Indo-Aryan languages / George Cardona, Silvia Luraghi -- Sanskrit / George Cardona, Silvia Luraghi -- Hindi-Urdu / Yamuna Kachru -- Bengali / M.H. Klaiman -- Iranian languages / J.R. Payne, Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari -- Persian / Gernot L. Windfuhr -- Pashto / D.N. MacKenzie -- Uralic languages / Robert Austerlitz -- Hungarian / Daniel Abondolo -- Finnish / Michael Branch -- Turkish and the Turkic languages / Jaklin Kornfilt -- Afroasiatic languages / Robert Hetzron -- Semitic languages / Robert Hetzron, Alan S. Kaye -- Arabic / Alan S. Kaye -- Hebrew / Robert Hetzron, Alan S. Kaye -- Amharic / Grover Hudson -- Hausa and the Chadic languages / Paul Newman -- Tamil and the Dravidian languages / Sanford B. Steever -- Tai languages / David Strecker -- Thai / Thomas John Hudak -- Vietnamese / Đình-Hoà Nguyễn -- Sino-Tibetan languages / Scott DeLancey -- Chinese / Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson -- Burmese / Julian K. Wheatley -- Japanese / Masayoshi Shibatani -- Korean / Nam-Kil Kim -- Austronesian languages / Ross Clark -- Malay-Indonesian / Uri Tadmor -- Javanese / Michael P. Oakes -- Tagalog / Paul Schachter, Lawrence A. Reid -- Niger-Kordofanian languages / Douglas Pulleyblank -- Yoruba / Douglas Pulleyblank, Ọlanikẹ Ọla Orie -- Swahili and the Bantu languages / Benji Wald.
520 8 _aThis book describes the most interesting features of over 50 of the world's major languages and language groups.
650 0 _aLanguage and languages.
700 1 _aComrie, Bernard,
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