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Languages In The World

Author : Julie Tetel Andresen

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 404 pages

File Size : 43,12 MB

Release : 2016-01-19

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1118531280

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This innovative introduction outlines the structure and distribution of the world’s languages, charting their evolution over the past 200,000 years. Balances linguistic analysis with socio-historical and political context, offering a cohesive picture of the relationship between language and society Provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the study of language by drawing not only on the diverse fields of linguistics (structural, linguist anthropology, historical, sociolinguistics), but also on history, biology, genetics, sociology, and more Includes nine detailed language profiles on Kurdish, Arabic, Tibetan, Hawaiian, Vietnamese, Tamil, !Xóõ (Taa), Mongolian, and Quiché A companion website offers a host of supplementary materials including, sound files, further exercises, and detailed introductory information for students new to linguistics



Languages of the World

Author : Asya Pereltsvaig

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 26,48 MB

Release : 2012-02-09

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1107002788

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Book Description

Introduces readers to the rich diversity of human languages, familiarizing them with the variety of languages around the world.



An Introduction to the Languages of the World

Author : Anatole Lyovin

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 545 pages

File Size : 15,62 MB

Release : 2017

Category : Education

ISBN : 0195149882

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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 their study with little background in languages, to the variety of the languages of the world.



The World's Major Languages

Author : Bernard Comrie

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 1125 pages

File Size : 22,19 MB

Release : 2018-04-17

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 1317290496

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Book 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.



The Book of Languages

Author : Mick Webb

Publisher : Owlkids

Page : 64 pages

File Size : 10,35 MB

Release : 2015-04-14

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9781771471558

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Book Description

"Take a tour of 21 of the world's most commonly spoken languages!"--Back cover.



The Sounds of the World's Languages

Author : Peter Ladefoged

Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell

Page : 450 pages

File Size : 21,31 MB

Release : 1996-02-05

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780631198154

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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 be a standard work of reference for researchers in phonetics, linguistics and speech science for many years to come. The scope of the book is truly global, with data drawn from nearly 400 languages, many of them investigated at first hand by the authors.



Sign Languages of the World

Author : Julie Bakken Jepsen

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 1086 pages

File Size : 48,77 MB

Release : 2015-10-16

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 150150102X

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Book Description

Although a number of edited collections deal with either the languages of the world or the languages of particular regions or genetic families, only a few cover sign languages or even include a substantial amount of information on them. This handbook provides information on some 38 sign languages, including basic facts about each of the languages, structural aspects, history and culture of the Deaf communities, and history of research. This information will be of interest not just to general audiences, including those who are deaf, but also to linguists and students of linguistics. By providing information on sign languages in a manner accessible to a less specialist audience, this volume fills an important gap in the literature.



Compendium of the World's Languages: Abaza to Kurdish

Author : George L. Campbell

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 970 pages

File Size : 20,18 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 9780415202961

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Book Description

Many languages, particularly those which have achieved literary status, have been studied in great detail, and specialized descriptions of these are plentiful. What has not been so readily available, however, is a general survey covering a wide spectrum of the world's languages on a comparative basis. It is this kind of comparative cross-section of languages, ranging from the familiar and well-documented to the relatively obscure, that the Compendium of the World's Languages presents.



Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World

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Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 1320 pages

File Size : 44,12 MB

Release : 2010-04-06

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0080877753

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Book Description

Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language families of the world. It will provide full descriptions of the phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax of the world's major languages, giving insights into their structure, history and development, sounds, meaning, structure, and language family, thereby both highlighting their diversity for comparative study, and contextualizing them according to their genetic relationships and regional distribution.Based on the highly acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this volume will provide an edited collection of almost 400 articles throughout which a representative subset of the world's major languages are unfolded and explained in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, by the leading scholars in linguistics. In highlighting the diversity of the world's languages — from the thriving to the endangered and extinct — this work will be the first point of call to any language expert interested in this huge area. No other single volume will match the extent of language coverage or the authority of the contributors of Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. - Extraordinary breadth of coverage: a comprehensive selection of just under 400 articles covering the world's major languages, language families, and classification structures, issues and dispute - Peerless quality: based on 20 years of academic development on two editions of the leading reference resource in linguistics, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Unique authorship: 350 of the world's leading experts brought together for one purpose - Exceptional editorial selection, review and validation process: Keith Brown and Sarah Ogilvie act as first-tier guarantors for article quality and coverage - Compact and affordable: one-volume format makes this suitable for personal study at any institution interested in areal, descriptive, or comparative language study - and at a fraction of the cost of the full encyclopedia



Babel

Author : Gaston Dorren

Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press

Page : 408 pages

File Size : 14,83 MB

Release : 2018-12-04

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0802146724

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“Babel is an endlessly interesting book, and you don’t have to have any linguistic training to enjoy it . . . it’s just so much fun to read.” —NPR English is the world language, except that 80 percent of the world doesn’t speak it. Linguist Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s people in their mother tongues, you’d need to know no fewer than twenty languages. In Babel, he sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali). Whisking readers along on a delightful journey, he traces how these languages rose to greatness while others fell away, and shows how speakers today handle the foibles of their mother tongues. Whether showcasing tongue-tying phonetics, elegant but complicated writing scripts, or mind-bending quirks of grammar, Babel vividly illustrates that mother tongues are like nations: each has its own customs and beliefs that seem as self-evident to those born into it as they are surprising to outsiders. Babel reveals why modern Turks can’t read books that are a mere 75 years old, what it means in practice for Russian and English to be relatives, and how Japanese developed separate “dialects” for men and women. Dorren also shares his experiences studying Vietnamese in Hanoi, debunks ten myths about Chinese characters, and discovers the region where Swahili became the lingua franca. Witty and utterly fascinating, Babel will change how you look at and listen to the world. “Word nerds of every strain will enjoy this wildly entertaining linguistic study.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)