xiv, 896 pages : 29 cm

Provides linguistic descriptions of a selected assortment of languages from renowned scholars, as well as historical and cultural information for each language

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Achehnese -- Afrikaans -- Akan -- Akkadian -- Albanian -- Amharic -- Arabic -- Aramaic -- Arapesh -- Armenian -- Assamese -- Aymara -- Azerbaijanian -- Balinese -- Balochi -- Bangla -- Basque -- Belorussian -- Bemba -- Bhojpuri -- Bikol -- Bugis -- Bulgarian -- Burmese -- Caribbean Creole English -- Catalan -- Cebuano -- Cherokee -- Chichewa -- Chinese languages: Classical Chinese -- Gan -- Hakka -- Mandarin -- Min -- Wu -- Xiang -- Yue -- Coptic -- Creek -- Czech -- Dagaare -- Danish -- Dutch -- Egyptian -- English -- Etruscan -- Ewe -- Finnish -- French -- Fula -- Galician -- Ge'ez -- Georgian -- German -- Gikuyu -- Gondi -- Gothic -- Greek -- Guarani -- Gujarati -- Gusii -- Haitian Creole -- Hausa -- Hebrew -- Hiligaynon -- Hindi -- Hittite -- Hungarian -- Ibibio -- Igbo -- Ilocano -- Irish -- Italian -- Japanese -- Javanese -- Kam -- Kannada -- Kanuri -- Kapampangan -- Kazakh -- Khmer -- Kikongo Kituba -- Kinyarwanda -- Kirghiz -- Konkani -- Korean -- Kurmanji Kurdish -- Lakota -- Lao -- Latin -- Latvian -- Lingala -- Lithuanian -- Luganda -- Macedonian -- Madurese -- Maithili -- Malagasy -- Malay/Indonesian -- Malayam -- Maninka-Bambara-Dyula -- Manipuri/Meithei -- Marathi -- Maya -- Mende -- Minangkabau -- Mongolian -- Moore -- Nama -- Nahuatl -- Navajo -- Nepali -- Nivkh -- Norwegian -- Occitan -- Oriya -- Oromo -- Pali -- Pangasinan -- Pashto -- Persian -- Phoenician/Punic -- Polish -- Polynesian languages -- Portuguese -- Pulaar -- Punjabi -- Pwo Karen -- Quechua -- Rajasthani -- Romani -- Romanian -- Rundi -- Russian -- Sango -- Sanskrit -- Santali -- Serbo-Croatian -- Sesotho -- Shan -- Shona -- Sindhi -- Sinhala -- Siraiki -- siSwati -- Slovak -- Slovene -- Sogdian -- Somali -- Spanish -- Sukuma -- Sumerian -- Sundanese -- Swahili -- Swedish -- Tagalog -- Tajik -- Tamazight -- Tamil -- Tatar -- Tay-Nung -- Telugu -- Thai -- Tibetan -- Tigrinya -- Tocharian -- Tok Pisin -- Tshiluba -- Tswana -- Turkish -- Turkmen -- Ukrainian -- UMbundu -- Urdu -- Uyghur -- Uzbek -- Vietnamese -- Waray Waray -- Warlpiri -- Welsh -- Wolaitta -- Wolof -- Xhosa -- Yi -- Yiddish -- Yoruba -- Yup'ik (Eskimo) -- Zhuang-Bouyei -- Zulu

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