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The World's major languages / edited by Bernard Comrie.

Comrie, Bernard, 1947- (Added Author).
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  • ISBN: 0195065115
  • Physical Description: xiii, 1025 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990, c1987.

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General Note: "For the 1989 [sic] number of minor errors have been corrected and bibliographical material has been updated." --Pref.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographies and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Afroasiatic languages / Robert Hetzron -- Semitic languages / Robert Hetzron -- Arabic / Alan S. Kaye -- Hebrew / Robert Hetzron -- Hausa and the Chadic languages / Paul Newman -- Tamil and the Dravidian languages / Sanford B. Steever -- Tai languages / David Strecker -- Thai / Thomas John Hudak -- Vietnamese / Đình-Hoà Nguyẽ̂n -- Sino-Tibetan languages / Scott Delancey -- Chinese / Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson -- Burmese / Julian K. Wheatley -- Japanese / Masayoshi Shibatani -- Korean / Nam-Kil Kim -- Austronesian languages / Ross Clark -- Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian) / D.J. Prentice -- Tagalog / Paul Schachter -- Niger-Kordofanian languages / Douglas Pulleyblank -- Yoruba / Douglas Pulleyblank -- Swahili and the Bantu languages / Benji Wald.
Introduction / Bernard Comrie -- Indo-European languages / Philip Baldi -- Germanic languages / John A. Hawkins -- English / Edward Finegan -- German / John A. Hawkins -- Dutch / Jan G. Kooij -- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish / Einar Haugen -- Latin and the Italic languages / R.G.G. Coleman -- Romance languages / John N. Green -- French / Martin Harris -- Spanish / John N. Green -- Portuguese / Stephen Parkinson -- Italian / Nigel Vincent -- Rumanian / Graham Mallinson -- Slavonic languages / Bernard Comrie -- Russian / Bernard Comrie -- Polish / Gerald Stone -- Czech and Slovak --David Short -- Serbo-Croat / Greville Corbett -- Greek / Brian D. Joseph --Indo-Aryan languages / George Cardona -- Sanskrit / George Cardona -- Hindi-Urdu / Yamuna Kachru -- Bengali / M.H. Klaiman -- Iranian languages / J.R. Payne -- Persian / Gernot L. Windfuhr -- Pashto / D.N. Mackenzie -- Uralic languages / Robert Austerlitz -- Hungarian / Daniel Abondolo -- Finnish / Michael Branch -- Turkish and the Turkic languages / Jaklin Kornfilt --
Subject: Language and languages.
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