The World's Major Languages
by Bernard Comrie
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"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 show more history and cultural role.The Worlds Major Languages is an accessible and essential reference work for linguists."--Provided by publisher. show lessTags
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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 real language mavens, however, this is as much fun as a box of candy, and will last lots longer.
A wealth of information on many languages throughout the world.
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- Original publication date
- 1987; 1989 (reprint with minor corrections and updates) (reprint with minor corrections and updates)
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- Preface
This work represents the fruits of the collaboration of 44 scholars with international reputations ranging across a broad spectrum of the world's languages. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)This blending of Bantu and non-Bantu traditions is suggestion of more prosaic adaptions of non-Bantu rhetorical patters which remain to be described in Swahili.
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- Paper, Ebook
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