The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages
by Roger D. Woodard (Editor)
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages is the first comprehensive reference work treating all of the languages of antiquity. Clear and systematic in its approach, the Encyclopedia combines full linguistic coverage of all the well documented ancient languages, representing numerous language families from around the globe. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full show more descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The Encyclopedia brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for linguistic professionals and students, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language. show lessTags
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Contains a chapter summarizing the historical context, writing system(s), phonology, morphology, and syntax of about every reasonably well-known language attested before about AD 500, as well as a number of more fragmentarily known ones. Being written by different authors, the various chapters differ a bit in style, focus, and depth, but all maintain a similar format.
More-or-less all the information is, I expect, available online, and in some cases significant advances in our understanding have occurred since publication, but while getting all the information for free may be possible, it is certainly not easy - the WP articles on many of the languages covered are, for example, rather sorry compared to the treatments here. So if an show more encyclopaedia of ancient languages sounds like your sort of thing, and you can find a copy for a reasonable price, I do recommend it. show less
More-or-less all the information is, I expect, available online, and in some cases significant advances in our understanding have occurred since publication, but while getting all the information for free may be possible, it is certainly not easy - the WP articles on many of the languages covered are, for example, rather sorry compared to the treatments here. So if an show more encyclopaedia of ancient languages sounds like your sort of thing, and you can find a copy for a reasonable price, I do recommend it. show less
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Roger D. Woodard is Andrew V. V. Raymond Professor of the Classics and professor of linguistics at the University of Buffalo (The State University of New York).
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