Edited by Sanford B. Steever

The Dravidian language family is the world's fourth largest with nearly 250 million speakers across South Asia from Pakistan to Nepal, from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka. This authoritative reference source provides a unique description of the languages, covering their grammatical structure and…

Hardback – 2020-01-08 
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Edited by John Huehnergard, Na’ama Pat-El

The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms. This second edition has been fully revised, with new chapters and a wealth of additional material. New…

Hardback – 2019-03-26
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Edited by Mark Van de Velde, Koen Bostoen

Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages, comparative studies of their main phonetic, phonological and grammatical characteristics and overview chapters on their history and classification. It is estimated…

Hardback – 2019-02-11
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Edited by Lyle Campbell

Language Isolates explores this fascinating group of languages that surprisingly comprise a third of the world’s languages. Individual chapters written by experts on these languages examine the world's major language isolates by geographic regions, with up-to-date descriptions of many, including…

Hardback – 2017-09-25
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By Terry Crowley, John Lynch, Malcolm D Ross

The Oceanic Languages form a closed subgroup within one of the world’s largest language families, Austronesian. There are between 1000 and 1500 Austronesian languages (estimates vary), with so much structural diversity that they are best handled in two volumes, one on the Oceanic and one on the…

Paperback – 2017-07-28
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Edited by Juha Janhunen

The Mongolic Languages represents the first comprehensive treatment of the Mongolic language family in English. The Mongolic languages form a linguistically well defined but geographically widely dispersed family of more than a dozen separate languages, distributed from East and North Asia (…

Paperback – 2017-07-27
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Edited by Nicolas Tranter

The Languages of Japan and Korea provides detailed descriptions of the major varieties of languages in the region, both modern and pre-modern, within a common format, producing a long-needed introductory reference source. Korean, Japanese, Ainu, and representative members of the main groupings of…

Paperback – 2017-05-24
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Edited by Judith Aissen, Nora C. England, Roberto Zavala Maldonado

The Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated with the Classic Mayan civilization (AD 200–900), a family whose individual languages are still spoken today by at least six million indigenous Maya in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. This unique…

Hardback – 2017-05-18
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Edited by Mate Kapović

The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language subgroups within this language family. With over four hundred languages and dialects and almost three billion native speakers, the Indo-European language family is the largest of the recognized…

Hardback – 2017-01-09
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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 oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them has multiplied in the last few decades. Now in its second edition and fully…

Hardback – 2016-12-08
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Edited by Martin Ball, Nicole Muller

The Celtic Languages describes in depth all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspectives with individual chapters on Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish. This second edition has been thoroughly revised to provide a comprehensive and…

Paperback – 2015-11-26
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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 the least well-known and least documented languages of the Indian subcontinent. This unprecedented and original work draws together a distinguished…

Paperback – 2014-08-15
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Edited by Rainer Vossen

The Routledge Language Family series is aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates of linguistics and language, and those with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology and language development. According to a widely accepted hypothesis, the Khoesan languages represent the…

Hardback – 2013-02-14
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Edited by Gernot Windfuhr

The Iranian languages form the major eastern branch of the Indo-European group of languages, itself part of the larger Indo-Iranian family. Estimated to have between 150 and 200 million native speakers, the Iranian languages constitute one of the world’s major language families. This comprehensive…

Paperback – 2012-07-12
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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 much needed grammatical descriptions in the area. It presents an important overview of Thai that includes…

Paperback – 2011-08-18
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Edited by Alexander 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 vary greatly in almost every possible respect, including the size and social make-up of the speech communities and their typological profiles.…

Paperback – 2011-04-28
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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 claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old…

Paperback – 2007-05-17
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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 are currently twenty languages in the group, the most important being Turkish. This is the first reference book to bring together detailed discussions of the…

Paperback – 2006-11-22
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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 family and for linguists looking for new information, as well as for readers with a general interest in Dravidian and Indic…

Paperback – 2006-11-14
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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 Africa. This is the first general survey of those languages, including the Arab and Aramaic dialects and various languages of Ethiopia. Containing twenty-two…

Paperback – 2006-11-14
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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 Uralic languages from Estonian to Samoyedic and discusses their structure, history and development.…

Paperback – 2006-11-14
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By Ekkehard Konig, Johan van der Auwera

Provides a unique, up-to-date survey of twelve Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish.…

Paperback – 2002-06-13
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By Professor Greville Corbett, Professor Bernard Comrie

In this scholarly volume, each of the living Slavonic languages are analysed and described in depth, together with the two extinct languages - Old Church Slavonic and Polabian. In addition, the various alphabets of the Slavonic languages - particularly Roman, Cyrillic and Glagolitic - are discussed…

Paperback – 2002-05-30
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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 to Romance-based Creole languages; a genuine innovation in a work of this kind.…

Hardback – 1988-01-28
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