Compendium of the World's Languages: Abaza to Kurdish, Volume 1Taylor & Francis, 2000 - 1854 pages This second edition of George Campbell's astounding survey of world languages has been thoroughly updated, revised, and expanded. It presents a comprehensive cross-section of languages, ranging from the familiar and well-documented to the relatively obscure. Fifteen completely new entries on exotic languages such as Comanche, Shona, and Wotapuri have been added to the more than 300 descriptions of the many forms taken by human speech worldwide. Also included are numerous articles on non-Roman scripts, not featured in the first edition. Dead languages associated with the great cultures of the past--Classical Chinese, Sanskrit, Classical Greek, and Latin--are featured, as well as intriguing isolates like Etruscan and Tangut. |
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Compendium of the world's languages: Abaza to Kurdish, Volume 1 George L. Campbell No preview available - 2000 |
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Abkhaz accusative Adjective As attribute affix affricates ANDI LANGUAGES aorist Arabic auxiliary base century Chinese conjugation consonantal DARDIC LANGUAGES dative declension definite article DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN denoting dialect diphthongs dual enclitic endings ergative example feminine fricatives future gender genitive imperative imperfective indicative indirect object Indo-European infix inflection INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN intransitive Japanese labial language lateral and flap literary locative MACRO-SIOUAN LANGUAGES marked masc masculine mood MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX negated negative neuter nominative notated oblique palatalized passive past participle perfective perfective aspect person singular personal pronouns phonemic PHONOLOGY PHONOLOGY Consonants stops plural forms plural marker possessive Postpositions precedes prefix Prepositions present Pronoun PERSONAL RELATIVE PRONOUN root Sanskrit script second person semi-vowels sing Singular Plural spoken stem Stress subjunctive suffix syllable SYNTAX Noun Tamahaq third person tone transitive verbs Turkic Turkic Languages verbal voiced vowel harmony