The World's major languages

• Other Authors: Comrie, Bernard, 1947-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Subjects: Language and languages.; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Miscellaneous.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Reference.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Semantics. > Linguistics; Talen.; Electronic books.
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This book describes the most interesting features of over fifty of the world's major languages and language groups.

Table of Contents:

• Indo-European languages / Philip Baldi
• Uralic languages / Robert Austerlitz
• Turkish and the Turkic languages / Jaklin Kornfilt
• Afroasiatic languages / Robert Hetzron
• Tamil and the Dravidian languages / Sanford B. Steever
• Tai languages / David Strecker
• Vietnamese / Đình-Hoà Nguyê̂̂̃n
• Sino-Tibetan languages / Scott DeLancey
• Japanese / Masayoshi Shibatani
• Korean / Nam-Kil Kim
• Austronesian languages / Ross Clark
• Niger-Kordofanian languages / Douglas Pulleyblank.