Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> Indic Languages

This comprehensive modern English-Indonesian dictionary, the first to be published in the United States, contains approximately 25,000 headwords. Following the most up-to-date lexicographical principles, it includes modern idioms and slang, and provides extensive illustrative examples in sentences and phrases. It also contains many abbreviations, technical terms, and cross references, especially to irregular verb form's and noun plurals. Although intended primarily for Indonesian users, the dictionary will be helpful to speakers of English who wish to know the Indonesian equivalent of an...

South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia.

The Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded...

Domari is an Indo-Aryan language that is now highly endangered. Its speakers were traditionally nomadic metalworkers and musicians who lived in tiny, geographically scattered and socially isolated communities throughout the Middle East. The grammar is based on conversational material recorded in Jerusalem in the mid-1990s with some of the last speakers of this particular variety.

What will I achieve by the end of the course?
By the end of Complete Urdu you will have a solid intermediate-level grounding in the four key skills - reading, writing, speaking and listening - and be...

• Two-way dictionary: Urdu-English, English- Urdu including transliteration throughout.
• 4000 headwords: Contains handy sections teaching Urdu script and grammar
• Insights from the author give extra help and guidance on usage.
• Covers everyday idioms and expressions
• Includes new terms related to media and internet Urdu
• Written by a university professor...

Though the biblical and the Indian literary traditions had independent origin and growth in terms of spatial and cultural milieux, there are literary landscapes of confluence where the literary fabrics of their collective wisdom are interwoven. Both narrative traditions have rich oral and folk prehistoric traditions in their records and this attribute provides a substratum where their narrative patterns and paradigms can find a common ground. A Hebraic reading of the Bible does not exhaust the meaning of the biblical texts; on the other hand, an Indian reading of the Bible could bring more...