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Available
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Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 1990, c1987.
Description
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.
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LibraryThing member annbury
What you see (in the title) is what you get. This book consists of 50 essays. about 50 major languages and language groups, examining their history, phonology, morphology, syntax and grammer. Most readers would probably find this dull, at least once they got beyond languages that they speak. For
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real language mavens, however, this is as much fun as a box of candy, and will last lots longer. Show Less
LibraryThing member maailmaniag
A wealth of information on many languages throughout the world.
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Language
Original publication date
1987
1989 (reprint with minor corrections and updates)
Physical description
xiii, 1025 p.; 24 cm
ISBN
9780195065114