The World's Major Languages features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. This revised edition includes updated bibliographies for each chapt
Provides linguistic descriptions of a selected assortment of languages from renowned scholars, as well as historical and cultural information for each language.
The only textbook of its kind, An Introduction to the Languages of the World is designed to introduce beginning linguistics students, who now typically start th
This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ. Encapsulating the work of two leading figures in the field, it will
Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language