The World's Major Languages - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415353394 ISBN 13: 9780415353397

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

This volume features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language's history and cultural role.

This second edition has been updated and revised. Two new languages, Amharic and Javanese, have been included.

This accessible volume will appeal to anyone with an interest in linguistics.

Key features:

• Attention is paid to both grammatical and sociolinguistic features
• Attention is concentrated on the world's major languages
• Designed to be accessible to all readers with an interest in language.

About this title

About the Author

Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (since 1997) Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of California Santa Barbara (since 2002)

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415353394
• ISBN 13: 9780415353397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 912
• Editor: Comrie Bernard