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Facts about the world's languages : an encyclopedia of the world's major languages, past and present / edited by Jane Garry and Carl Rubino ; contributing linguistics editors, Adams B. Dodomo, Alice Faber, Robert French.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Language and languages.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 896 pages : maps ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : H.W. Wilson, 2001.
- Contents:
- Acehnese 1
- Afrikaans 4
- Akan 8
- Akkadian 11
- Albanian 15
- Amharic 20
- Arabic 23
- Aramaic 28
- Arapesh 33
- Armenian 39
- Assamese 43
- Aymara 48
- Azerbaijanian 52
- Balinese 55
- Balochi 59
- Bangla 65
- Basque 72
- Belorussian 77
- Bemba 81
- Bhojpuri 86
- Bikol 90
- Bugis 96
- Bulgarian 100
- Burmese 105
- Caribbean Creole English 111
- Catalan 115
- Cebuano 121
- Cherokee 127
- Chichewa 131
- Chinese Languages
- Classical Chinese 134
- Gan 139
- Hakka 142
- Mandarin 146
- Min 151
- Wu 158
- Xiang 162
- Yue 164
- Coptic 169
- Creek 173
- Czech 177
- Dagaare 180
- Danish 184
- Dutch 190
- Egyptian, Ancient 194
- English 199
- Etruscan 204
- Ewe 207
- Finnish 214
- French 219
- Fula 224
- Galician 229
- Ge'ez 234
- Georgian 237
- German 241
- Gikuyu 246
- Gondi 249
- Gothic 253
- Greek
- Ancient 256
- Modern 263
- Guarani 271
- Gujarati 274
- Gusii 278
- Haitian Creole 282
- Hausa 286
- Hebrew
- Biblical 291
- Modern 296
- Hiligaynon 300
- Hindi 305
- Hittite 310
- Hungarian 314
- Ibibio 317
- Igbo 322
- Ilocano 331
- Irish 336
- Italian 341
- Japanese 345
- Javanese 350
- Kam 356
- Kannada 360
- Kanuri 366
- Kapampangan 371
- Kazakh 376
- Khmer 379
- Kikongo Kituba 383
- Kinyarwanda 385
- Kirghiz 387
- Konkani 390
- Korean 394
- Kurmanji Kurdish 398
- Lakota 404
- Lao 409
- Latin 412
- Latvian 417
- Lingala 421
- Lithuanian 424
- Luganda 429
- Macedonian 435
- Madurese 440
- Maithili 443
- Malagasy 448
- Malay/Indonesian 452
- Malayalam 459
- Maninka-Bambara-Dyula 463
- Manipuri/Meithei 466
- Marathi 471
- Maya 475
- Mende 480
- Minangkabau 483
- Mongolian 488
- Moore 492
- Nama 497
- Nahuatl 502
- Navajo 506
- Nepali 511
- Nivkh 515
- Norwegian 520
- Occitan 524
- Oriya 528
- Oromo 531
- Pali 534
- Pangasinan 539
- Pashto 543
- Persian 548
- Phoenician/Punic 552
- Polish 556
- Polynesian Languages 560
- Portuguese 567
- Pulaar 572
- Punjabi 576
- Pwo Karen 580
- Quechua 584
- Rajasthani 591
- Romani 594
- Romanian 598
- Rundi 602
- Russian 605
- Sango 608
- Sanskrit 611
- Santali 623
- Serbo-Croatian 629
- Sesotho 633
- Shan 637
- Shona 642
- Sindhi 647
- Sinhala 654
- Siraiki 657
- siSwati 660
- Slovak 664
- Slovene 668
- Sogdian 672
- Somali 675
- Spanish 680
- Sukuma 685
- Sumerian 690
- Sundanese 692
- Swahili 697
- Swedish 700
- Tagalog 703
- Tajik 708
- Tamazight 712
- Tamil 716
- Tatar 719
- Tay-Nung 722
- Telugu 728
- Thai 733
- Tibetan 740
- Tigrinya 745
- Tocharian 748
- Tok Pisin 752
- Tshiluba 757
- Tswana 762
- Turkish 766
- Turkmen 770
- Ukrainian 773
- UMbundu 776
- Urdu 780
- Uyghur 786
- Uzbek 791
- Vietnamese 794
- Waray Waray 797
- Warlpiri 801
- Welsh 804
- Wolaitta 809
- Wolof 816
- Xhosa 822
- Yi 826
- Yiddish 830
- Yoruba 836
- Yup'ik (Eskimo) 842
- Zhuang-Bouyei 848
- Zulu 852.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0824209702
- OCLC:
- 45100132
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