The world's major languages /edited by Bernard Comrie. - second edition. - London ; New York : Routledge, (c)2010. - xvi, 911 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Reprint. Originally published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Indo-European languages/ Germanic languages/ English/ German/ Dutch/ Danish, Norwegian and Swedish/ Latin and the Italic languages/ Romance languages/ French/ Spanish/ Portuguese/ Italian/ Rumanian/ Slavonic languages/ Russian/ Polish/ Czech and Slovak/ Serbo-Croat : Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian/ Greek/ Indo-Aryan languages/ Sanskrit/ Hindi-Urdu/ Bengali/ Iranian languages/ Persian/ Pashto/ Uralic languages/ Hungarian/ Finnish/ Turkish and the Turkic languages/ Afroasiatic languages/ Semitic languages/ Arabic/ Hebrew/ Amharic/ Hausa and the Chadic languages/ Tamil and the Dravidian languages/ Tai languages/ Thai/ Vietnamese/ Sino-Tibetan languages/ Chinese/ Burmese/ Japanese/ Korean/ Austronesian languages/ Malay-Indonesian/ Javanese/ Tagalog/ Niger-Kordofanian languages/ Yoruba/ Swahili and the Bantu languages/ Philip Baldi -- John A. Hawkins -- Edward Finegan -- John A. Hawkins -- Jan G. Kooij -- Einar Haugen -- R.G.G. Coleman -- John N. Green -- Linda R. Waugh, Monique Monville-Burston -- John N. Green -- Stephen Parkinson -- Nigel Vincent -- Graham Mallinson -- Bernard Comrie -- Bernard Comrie -- Gerald Stone -- David Short -- Greville Corbett, Wayles Browne -- Brian D. Joseph -- George Cardona, Silvia Luraghi -- George Cardona, Silvia Luraghi -- Yamuna Kachru -- M.H. Klaiman -- J.R. Payne, Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari -- Gernot L. Windfuhr -- D.N. MacKenzie -- Robert Austerlitz -- Daniel Abondolo -- Michael Branch -- Jaklin Kornfilt -- Robert Hetzron -- Robert Hetzron, Alan S. Kaye -- Alan S. Kaye -- Robert Hetzron, Alan S. Kaye -- Grover Hudson -- Paul Newman -- Sanford B. Steever -- David Strecker -- Thomas John Hudak -- inh-Hoa Nguyen -- Scott DeLancey -- Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson -- Julian K. Wheatley -- Masayoshi Shibatani -- Nam-Kil Kim -- Ross Clark -- Uri Tadmor -- Michael P. Oakes -- Paul Schachter, Lawrence A. Reid -- Douglas Pulleyblank -- Douglas Pulleyblank, Olanike Ola Orie -- Benji Wald.



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