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The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World's Languages book cover

2nd Edition

The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World's Languages

By George L. Campbell, Gareth King Copyright 2011
912 Pages
by Routledge

912 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

912 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This second edition of The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World’s Languages has been completely revised to provide up-to-date and accurate descriptions of a wide cross-section of natural-language systems. All cultural and historical notes as well as statistical data for each language have been checked, updated and in many cases expanded. Now offering an even broader range of languages... Read more

Preface.  Glossary of Technical terms.  Index of IPA symbols (articulatory listing).  Index of IPA symbols (alphabetic resemblance listing).  Afrikaans  Ainu  Akan  Albanian  Amharic  Arabic  Armenian  Aymara  Balinese  Basque  Belarusian  Bengali  Berber  Breton  Buginese  Bulgarian  Burmese  Cambodian  Catalan  Chinese  Chukchi  Cree  Czech  Danish  Dutch  English  Estonian  Ewe  Finnish  French  Fula  Georgian  German  Greek  Guarani  Gujarati  Haitian Creole  Hausa  Hebrew  Hindi  Hungarian  Icelandic  Igbo  Inuit  Irish  Italian  Japanese  Kannada  Kazakh  Ket  Korean  Lakota  Latin  Latvian  Lingala   Lithuanian  Malagasy  Malayalam  Malay-Indonesian  Maltese  Maori  Mapudungu  Marathi  Mende  Mongolian  Nahuatl  Nama  Navaho  Nepali  Nivkh  Norwegian  Oromo  Panjabi  Pashto  Persian  Polish  Portuguese  Quechua  Romanian  Romany  Russian  Sami  Samoan  Sanskrit  Scottish Gaelic  Serbo-Croat  Shona  Sinhala  Slovak  Slovene  Somali  Spanish  Sundanese  Swahili  Swedish  Tagalog  Tamil  Telugu  Thai  Tibetan  Turkish  Ukrainian  Urdu  Uzbek  Vietnamese  Welsh  Wolof  Yiddish  Yoruba  Zulu  Comparative grid of numbers 1-10 (alphabetical listing)  Comparative grid of numbers 1-10 (genetic listing)  Scripts section  Bibliography





Biography

Gary King is Series Advisor for the Roultedge Colloquials and the author of numerous books on language and linguistics. He is also UCAS co-ordinator and a lecturer at a large sixth-form college.



George L. Campbell worked for the BBC World Service and was a polyglot linguist and translator.



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'If you need to know whether a language has gender, or marks definiteness, its [the book's] uniform structure will lead you to the answer instantly.' - Geoffrey S. Nathan, Department of English, Wayne State University

'This is a curious, but entertaining book [...] It's based on an even more curious book, the first edition, which was put together by George Campbell: "Campbell, who was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records during the 1980s as one of the world's greatest living linguists, could speak and write fluently in at least 44 languages and had a working knowledge of about 20 others." (LA Times Obituary, Dec. 21, 2004)' - Geoffrey S. Nathan, Department of English, Wayne State University

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