The Germanic Languages

Wayne Harbert

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• Germanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwid... Lees meer

The Dravidian Languages

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• The Dravidian languages are spoken by nearly 200 million people in South Asia and in diaspora communities around the world. They include Tamil, Malaya... Lees meer

Australian Languages

R M W Dixon

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished mat... Lees meer

The Papuan Languages of New Guinea

William a Foley

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• This introduction to the descriptive and historical linguistics of the Papuan languages of New Guinea provide an accessible account of one of the rich... Lees meer

The Languages of the Andes

Williams F H Adelaar, Pieter C Muysken, Willem F H Adelaar

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• The Andean and Pacific regions of South America are home to a remarkable variety of languages and language families, with a range of typological diffe... Lees meer

The Korean Language

Ho-Min Sohn

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Korean. It presents essential facts about the language: its speakers, its relation... Lees meer

Turkic

Lars Johanson

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• Turkic is one of the world's major language families, comprising a high number of distinct languages and varieties that display remarkable similaritie... Lees meer

The Languages of Japan

Masayoshi Shibatani

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• This book surveys the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No genetic relationship has been established between them, and struct... Lees meer

The Celtic Languages

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• Six modern Celtic languages are described in this volume. Four of these, Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton, are living community languag... Lees meer

The Dravidian Languages

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• The Dravidian languages are spoken by nearly 200 million people in South Asia and in diaspora communities around the world. They include Tamil, Malaya... Lees meer

The Languages of Japan

Masayoshi Shibatani

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• This book surveys the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No genetic relationship has been established between them, and struct... Lees meer

The Languages of Native North America

Marianne Mithun

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• This book is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the native North American languages. These several hundred languages show tremendous genetic ... Lees meer

Pidgins and Creoles Volume II

John A Holm

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• This second volume of John Holm's Pidgins and Creoles provides an overview of the social-historical development of each of some one hundred known pidg... Lees meer

The Amazonian Languages

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• The Amazon Basin is the least known and the most complex linguistic region in the world today. It is the home of some 300 languages many of which (oft... Lees meer

The Germanic Languages

Wayne Harbert

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• Germanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwid... Lees meer

Australian Languages

R M W Dixon

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished mat... Lees meer

The Slavic Languages

R Sussex, Roland Sussex, Paul Cubberley

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• Including Bosnian, Russian, Polish and Slovak, the Slavic group of languages is the fourth largest Indo-European sub-group. Spoken by 297 million peop... Lees meer

The Amazonian Languages

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• The Amazon Basin is the least known and the most complex linguistic region in the world today. It is the home of some 300 languages many of which (oft... Lees meer

The Languages of the Andes

Williams F H Adelaar, Pieter C Muysken, Willem F H Adelaar

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• The Andean and Pacific regions of South America are home to a remarkable variety of languages and language families, with a range of typological diffe... Lees meer

Languages of the Soviet Union

Bernard Comrie, Comrie

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• A general account of the languages of the Soviet Union, one of the most diverse multinational and multilingual states in the world as well as one of t... Lees meer

Sign Languages

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• What are the unique characteristics of sign languages that make them so fascinating? What have recent researchers discovered about them, and what do t... Lees meer

Pidgins and Creoles Volume I

John A Holm

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• The first volume of Holm's major survey of pidgins and creoles provide an up-to-date and readable introduction to a field of study that has become est... Lees meer

The Slavic Languages

Roland Sussex, Paul Cubberley

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• Including Bosnian, Russian, Polish and Slovak, the Slavic group of languages is the fourth largest Indo-European sub-group. Spoken by 297 million peop... Lees meer

The Korean Language

Ho-Min Sohn, Sohn Ho-Min

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Language Surveys
• This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Korean. It presents essential facts about the language: its speakers, its relation... Lees meer