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Altaic Family
Austronesian Family
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Bantu Languages
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comparative linguistics
Cushitic Languages
Dravidian Languages
English Creole
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Eskimo Aleut
Eskimo Aleut Languages
family
Finno Ugric Languages
French Creole
Gaelic
global language family structures
indic
indo-european
Indo-European Family
international
Ivory Coast
khmer
language classification methods
language typology
Lingua Franca
mon
MON KHMER LANGUAGES
Munda Languages
National Language
Niger Congo Family
phonological systems
polynesian
Polynesian Language
Rhaeto Romanic Dialect
Roman Alphabet
Sasak
script analysis
Sino Tibetan Family
sociolinguistic diversity
Solomon Islands
Tamil Nadu
turkic
western
Product details
- ISBN 9780415250047
- Weight: 740g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Mar 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 where each language is spoken, its history, alphabet and pronunciation
*coverage of every country in the world, its main language and speaker numbers
*an introduction to language families
Prior to his recent retirement, Kenneth Katzner worked for the US government and also served as an editor on a number of international encyclopedias and English dictionaries. He is also author of a large English-Russian/Russian-English Dictionary.
