This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countries, and up-to-date data on populations.
Features include:
*information on nearly 600 languages
*individual descriptions of 200 languages, with sample passages and English translations
*concise notes on...

This impressive volume has been revised and updated for the new geographical realities of the '90s. It is the first Russian-English dictionary to cover all the linguistic changes--new political terminology, new Russian institutions, new place names--that have accompanied the breakup of the Soviet Union. This edition is ten percent larger than the first edition, with 27,000 words in the English-Russian section and 40,000 words in the Russian-English section.