The Tai-Kadai Languages

Edited by Anthony Diller, Jerry Edmondson, Yongxian Luo

With close to 100 million speakers, Tai-Kadai constitutes one of the world's major language families. The Tai-Kadai Languages provides a unique, comprehensive, single-volume tome covering...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1457-5 | Published June 19th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Munda Languages

Edited by Gregory D.S. Anderson

The Munda group of languages of the Austroasiatic family are spoken within central and eastern India by almost ten million people. To date, they are...

ISBN: 978-0-415-32890-6 | Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Indo-Aryan Languages

Edited by George Cardona, Danesh Jain

The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a...

ISBN: 978-0-415-77294-5 | Published May 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Sino-Tibetan Languages

Edited by Randy J. LaPolla, Graham Thurgood

There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Our records of these languages are among the...

ISBN: 978-0-415-77295-2 | Published April 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Turkic Languages

Edited by Éva Ágnes Csató Johanson, Lars Johanson

The Turkic languages are spoken today in a vast geographical area from the Balkans to the Arctic Ocean and from South Iran to China. There...

ISBN: 978-0-415-41261-2 | Published November 22nd 2006 by Routledge.

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The Indo-European Languages

Edited by Paolo Ramat

The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred languages and dialects including most of the major languages of Europe as well as many in...

ISBN: 978-0-415-41263-6 | Published November 14th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Semitic Languages

Edited by Robert Hetzron

The Semitic languages are a family of languages spoken by more that 370 million people across much of the Middle East and North and East...

ISBN: 978-0-415-41266-7 | Published November 14th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Uralic Languages

Edited by Daniel Abondolo

The Uralic languages form a language family of around thirty languages spoken by about twenty million people. This book focuses on nineteen of the major...

ISBN: 978-0-415-41264-3 | Published November 14th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Dravidian Languages

Edited by Sanford B. Steever

The Dravidian language family is the world’s fourth largest with over 220 million speakers.

This authoritative reference is ideal both as an introduction to the language...

ISBN: 978-0-415-41267-4 | Published November 14th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Bantu Languages

Edited by Derek Nurse, Gerard Philipson

Providing descriptive and typological information about the Bantu languages of southern Africa, this volume brings together a set of expert contributors and is divided into...

ISBN: 978-0-415-41265-0 | Published November 14th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar

Edited by Sander Adelaar, Nikolaus Himmelmann

Some 800 Austronesian languages are spoken in the area extending from Madagascar to eastern Indonesia and, to the north, to Taiwan and the Philippines. They...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1286-1 | Published November 25th 2004 by Routledge.

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The Mongolic Languages

Edited by Juha Janhunen

Once the rulers of the largest land empire that has ever existed on earth, the historical Mongols of Chinggis Khan left a linguistic heritage which...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1133-8 | Published June 26th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Germanic Languages

By Ekkehard Konig, Johan van der Auwera

ISBN: 978-0-415-28079-2 | Published June 13th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Slavonic Languages

Edited by Bernard Comrie, Greville G. Corbett

In this scholarly volume, each of the living Slavonic languages are analysed and described in depth, together with the two extinct languages - Old Church...

ISBN: 978-0-415-28078-5 | Published May 30th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Celtic Languages

Edited by University of Louisiana at Lafayette

This comprehensive volume describes in depth all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspectives, with individual chapters on Irish, Scottish, Gaelic, Manx, Welsh,...

ISBN: 978-0-415-28080-8 | Published May 23rd 2002 by Routledge.

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The Oceanic Languages

By Terry Crowley, John Lynch, Malcolm Ross

This new volume of the Language Family Series presents an overview of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian languages, spread across a region embracing eastern...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1128-4 | Published December 21st 2001 by Routledge.

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The Romance Languages

Edited by Martin Harris, Nigel Vincent

Available again, this book discusses nine Romance languages in context of their common Latin origins and then in individual studies. The final chapter is devoted...

ISBN: 978-0-415-16417-7 | Published January 28th 1988 by Routledge.

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