The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World's Languages

ISBN-13: 9780367581251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 912 str.

George L. Campbell; Gareth King

Opis

This second edition of The Concise Compendium of the World’s Languages has been completely revised to provide up-to-date and accurate descriptions of a wide cross-section of natural-language systems. All cultural and historical notes as well as statistical data for each language have been checked, updated and in many cases expanded.

Spis treści

Preface.  Glossary of Technical terms.  Index of IPA symbols (articulatory listing).  Index of IPA symbols (alphabetic resemblance listing).  Afrikaans  Ainu  Akan  Albanian  Amharic  Arabic  Armenian  Aymara  Balinese  Basque  Belarusian  Bengali  Berber  Breton  Buginese  Bulgarian  Burmese  Cambodian  Catalan  Chinese  Chukchi  Cree  Czech  Danish  Dutch  English  Estonian  Ewe  Finnish  French  Fula  Georgian  German  Greek  Guarani  Gujarati  Haitian Creole  Hausa  Hebrew  Hindi  Hungarian  Icelandic  Igbo  Inuit  Irish  Italian  Japanese  Kannada  Kazakh  Ket  Korean  Lakota  Latin  Latvian  Lingala   Lithuanian  Malagasy  Malayalam  Malay-Indonesian  Maltese  Maori  Mapudungu  Marathi  Mende  Mongolian  Nahuatl  Nama  Navaho  Nepali  Nivkh  Norwegian  Oromo  Panjabi  Pashto  Persian  Polish  Portuguese  Quechua  Romanian  Romany  Russian  Sami  Samoan  Sanskrit  Scottish Gaelic  Serbo-Croat  Shona  Sinhala  Slovak  Slovene  Somali  Spanish  Sundanese  Swahili  Swedish  Tagalog  Tamil  Telugu  Thai  Tibetan  Turkish  Ukrainian  Urdu  Uzbek  Vietnamese  Welsh  Wolof  Yiddish  Yoruba  Zulu  Comparative grid of numbers 1-10 (alphabetical listing)  Comparative grid of numbers 1-10 (genetic listing)  Scripts section  Bibliography

O autorze

Gary King is Series Advisor for the Roultedge Colloquials and the author of numerous books on language and linguistics. He is also UCAS co-ordinator and a lecturer at a large sixth-form college.

George L. Campbell worked for the BBC World Service and was a polyglot linguist and translator.

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