General Introduction. List of Maps. North America. Latin America 1: Meso-America. Latin America 2: South America. Europe and North Asia. South Asia and the Middle East. East and Southeast Asia. Australasia and the Pacific. Africa. Index of Language Names
Biography
Christopher Moseley has recently retired from two decades spent covering Baltic affairs for BBC Monitoring, part of the BBC World Service. He now works as a freelance translator and editor, with a particular lifelong interest in the languages and literatures of the Baltic and Nordic areas. He is the editor of the Journal of the Foundation for Endangered Languages. His other books include Atlas of the World's Languages (Routledge, 2007), Colloquial Latvian (Routledge, 1996) and Colloquial Estonian (Routledge, 1994).
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