Facts About the World's Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages, Past and Present [Hardcover]

Jane Garry (Editor), Carl Rubino (Editor), Adams B. Bodomo (Editor), Alice Faber (Editor), Robert French (Editor)

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Publication Date: July 2001 | ISBN-10: 0824209702 | ISBN-13: 978-0824209704

An authoritative source of rich, structured data for both the general public and linguistic experts.

Each of the 191 chapters is written by an expert and devoted to a single language. Three indexes are included for cross reference: Language by Country, Language by Family, Language by Alternate Names.

Entry Headings include: Language Name, Location, Family, Related Languages, Dialects, Number of Speakers, Origin and History, Orthography and Basic Phonology, Basic Morphology, Basic Syntax, Contact with Other Languages, Common Words, Selected Bibliography, and Efforts to Preserve, Protect, and Promote the Language.

Facts About the World’s Languages has been honored by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title of 2001

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Latest addition to the Wilson 'Facts About Series'. All are handy references for speedy access to facts and statistics, as well as being fascinating casual reading.

'Facts About the World's Languages' is 896 pages.

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• Hardcover: 896 pages
• Publisher: Hw Wilson Co (July 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824209702
• ISBN-13: 978-0824209704
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.9 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A superbly presented contribution to linquistic studies., March 22, 2002

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This review is from: Facts About the World's Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages, Past and Present (Hardcover)

Facts About The World's Languages by Greenwood Publishing Group Senior Editor Jane Garry and grammarian, morphologist, and linguistics expert Carl Rubino is an immense, comprehensive, scholarly reference tome, offering a capsule summary of hard linguistic data about a vast array of living and a few dead languages. From Afrikaans and eight dialects of Chinese to Ancient Egyptian, Polynesian languages and Zulu, a globe-spanning array of human tongues are presented with hard data concerning their origin and history, orthography and basic phonology, basic morphology, basic syntax, history of contact with other languages, examples of words and sentences, and a brief accounting of efforts to preserve and protect the language. A fascinating, first-rate reference for anyone involved in linguistic studies, or who needs to quickly look up information about dozens of the most famous or widely known languages in the modern world, Facts About The World's Languages is an invaluable and strongly recommended, core title addition to any professional, academic, and community library Language Studies reference collection.