Compendium of the World's Languages

Name: Compendium of the World's Languages
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ISBN: 9780415069793

ISBN-10: 0415069793

ISBN-13: 9780415069793

Edition: 2004

Authors: George L. Campbell

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This second edition of George Campbell's astounding survey of world languages has been thoroughly updated, revised, and expanded. It presents a comprehensive cross-section of languages, ranging from the familiar and well-documented to the relatively obscure. Fifteen completely new entries on exotic languages such as Comanche, Shona, and Wotapuri have been added to the more than 300 descriptions of the many forms taken by human speech worldwide. Also included are numerous articles on non-Roman scripts, not featured in the first edition. Dead languages associated with the great cultures of the past--Classical Chinese, Sanskrit, Classical Greek, and Latin--are featured, as well as intriguing…

Book details

Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 752
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Languages include : Abkhaz


Afrikaans


Akan


Amharic


Andamanese


Apache


Arabic


Arapaho


Aymara


Balinese


Bambara


Basque


Bengali


Breton


Buginese


Bulgarian


Burushaski


Carib


Catalan


Cebuano


Cherokee


Chinese Archaic/Classical/Modern Standard


Choctaw


Chukchi


Dardic


Dutch


Egyptian


Evenki


Faeroese


Gorontalo


Greek


Guarani


Gujarati


Hebrew


Hindi


Hopi


Inuit


Japanese Classical/Modern Standard


Javanese


Juang


Ket


Khmer


Khung


Korean


Kurdish


Lezgi


Lithuanian


Macassarese


Manchu


Manx


Maori


Mapudungu


Marathi


Margi


Maya


Nahuatl


Nama


Navaho


Nenets


Nepali


Old Norse


Oriya


Panjabi


Quechua


Romany


Russian


Santali


Sinhalese


Sumerian


Swahili


Tangut


Thai


Tlingit


Tongan


Tupi


Udmurt


Urdu


Uzbek


Veps


Wolof


Wu


Yi


Yoruba


Zapotecan


Zhuang and Zuni