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The World's major languages / edited by Bernard Comrie.
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Title:The World's major languages / edited by Bernard Comrie.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Comrie, Bernard, 1947-
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Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY reference (non-circulating) (Floor 2)Where is this?
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Call Number: P371 .W6 1987
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY reference (non-circulating) (Floor 2)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Language and languages.
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Medical Subjects: Language
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Genre/Form:Reference works.
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Description:xiii, 1, 025 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Summary:Detailed guide to the world's forty major languages with full historical, sociological, and linguistic information.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:0195205219
9780195205213
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Contents:Introduction / Bernard Comrie
Part I: Indo-European languages / Philip Baldi
Germanic languages / John A Hawkins
English / Edward Finegan
German / John A Hawkins
Dutch / Jan G Kooij
Danish, Norwegian and Swedish / Einar Haugen
Latin and the Italic languages / R G G Coleman
Romantic languages / John N Green
French / Martin Harris
Spanish / John N Green
Portuguese / Stephen Parkinson
Italian / Nigel Vincent
Rumanian / Graham Mallinson
Slavonic languages / Bernard Comrie
Russian / Bernard Comrie
Polish / Gerald Stone
Czech and Slovak / David Short
Serbo-Croat / Greville Corbett
Greek / Brian D Joseph
Indo-Aryan languages / George Cardona
Sanskrit / George Cardona
Hindi-Urdu / Yamuna Kachru
Bengali / M H Klaiman
Iranian languages / J R Payne
Persian / Gernot L Windfuhr
Pashto / D N Mackenzie
Part II: Uralic languages / Robert Austerlitz
Hungarian / Daniel Abondolo
Finnish / Michael Branch
Part III: Turkish and the Turkic languages / Jaklin Kornfilt
Part IV: Afroasiatic languages / Robert Hetzron
Semitic languages / Robert Hetzron
Arabic / Alan S Kaye
Hebrew / Robert Hetzron
Hausa and the Chadic languages / Paul Newman
Part V: Tamil and the Dravidian languages / Sanford B Steever
Part VI: Tai languages / David Strecker
Thai / Thomas John Hudak
Part VII: Vietnamese / Đình-Hoà Nguyen
Part VIII: Sino-Tibetan languages / Scott Delancey
Chinese / Charles N Li and Sandra A Thompson
Burmese / Julian K Wheatley
Part IX: Japanese / Masayoshi Shibatani
Part X: Korean / Nam-Kil Kim
Part XI: Austronesia languages / Ross Clark
Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian) / D J Prentice
Tagalog / Paul Schachter
Part XII: Niger-Kordfanian languages / Douglas Pulleyblank
Yoruba / Douglas Pulleyblank
Swahili and the Bantu languages / Benji Wald.