The world's major languages / edited by Bernard Comrie.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The World's Major Languages features over 50 of the world's languages and language families.
This revised edition includes updated bibliographies for each chapter and up-to-date census figures. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language's history and cultural role.
The World's Major Languages is an accessible and essential reference work for linguists.
"First edition published by Croom Helm 1987."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Indo-European languages -- Germanic languages -- English -- German -- Dutch -- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish -- Latin and the Italic languages -- Romance languages -- French -- Spanish -- Portuguese -- Italian -- Romanian -- Slavonic languages -- Russian -- Polish -- Czech and Slovak -- Serbo-Croat : Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian -- Greek -- Indo-Aryan languages -- Sanskrit -- Hindi-Urdu -- Bengali -- Iranian languages -- Persian -- Pashto -- Uralic languages -- Hungarian -- Finnish -- Turkish and the Turkic languages -- Afroasiatic languages -- Semitic languages -- Arabic -- Hebrew -- Amharic -- Hausa and the Chadic languages -- Tamil and the Dravidian languages -- Tai languages -- Thai -- Vietnamese -- The Sino-Tibetan languages -- Chinese -- Burmese -- Japanese -- Korean -- Austronesian languages -- Malay-Indonesian -- Javanese -- Tagalog -- Niger-Kordofanian (Niger-Congo) languages -- Yoruba -- Swahili and the Bantu languages.