1. Introduction; Part I. Background: 2. Historical background; 3. Writing system; Part II. Language Structure: 4. Phonology and phonetics; 5. Morphology; 6. Morphosyntax: case, grammatical relations and nominalization; 7. Syntax; 8. Syntax-semantics interface; Part III. Language in Context: 9. Language and society; 10. Language and gender.