The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World's Languages
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The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World's Languages

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The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World's Languages

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This second edition of The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World's Languages has been completely revised to provide up-to-date and accurate descriptions of a wide cross-section of natural-language systems. All cultural and historical notes as well as statistical data for each language have been checked, updated and in many cases expanded.

Now offering an even broader range of languages including a greater number of the lesser-known ones, such as Cree, Maltese and Haitian Creole, this new edition of The Routledge Concise Compendium covers a total of 111 languages.

Key features include:

  • complete rewriting and systematization of the phonology sections for all languages
  • provision of IPA symbol grids arranged by articulatory feature and by alphabetic resemblance to facilitate use of the new phonology sections
  • expansion of morphology descriptions for all languages
  • provision of new illustrative text samples
  • addition of a glossary of technical terms
  • comparative tables of the numerals 1-10 in all languages covered, and also grouped by family
  • classification by genetic relationship of all languages covered.

Using the wealth of recent developments and research in language typology and broadened availability of descriptive data, this new incarnation of The Routledge Concise Compendium brings a much-loved survey emphatically into the twenty-first century for a new generation of readers.

The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World's Languages remains the ideal compact reference for all interested linguistics and professionals alike.

Gary King is Series Advisor for the Roultedge Colloquials and the author of numerous books on language and linguistics. He is also UCAS co-ordinator and a lecturer at a large sixth-form college.

George L. Campbell worked for the BBC World Service and was a polyglot linguist and translator.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
ISBN
9781135692568
Edition
2
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Languages
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Glossary of technical terms
  7. IPA symbols by feature/point of articulation
  8. IPA symbols by alphabetic similarity
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Afrikaans
  11. Ainu
  12. Akan (Twi)
  13. Albanian
  14. Amharic
  15. Arabic
  16. Armenian
  17. AymarĂĄ
  18. Balinese
  19. Basque
  20. Belarusian
  21. Bengali
  22. Berber
  23. Breton
  24. Buginese
  25. Bulgarian
  26. Burmese
  27. Cambodian (Khmer)
  28. Catalan
  29. Chinese
  30. Chukchi
  31. Cree
  32. Czech
  33. Danish
  34. Dutch
  35. English
  36. Estonian
  37. Ewe
  38. Finnish
  39. French
  40. Fula
  41. Georgian
  42. German
  43. Greek
  44. GuaranĂ­
  45. Gujarati
  46. Haitian Creole
  47. Hausa
  48. Hebrew
  49. Hindi
  50. Hungarian
  51. Icelandic
  52. Igbo
  53. Inuit
  54. Irish
  55. Italian
  56. Japanese
  57. Kannada
  58. Kazakh
  59. Ket
  60. Korean
  61. Lakota
  62. Latin
  63. Latvian
  64. Lingala
  65. Lithuanian
  66. Malagasy
  67. Malayalam
  68. Malay-Indonesian
  69. Maltese
  70. Maori
  71. Mapudungu
  72. Marathi
  73. Mende
  74. Mongolian
  75. Nahuatl
  76. Nama
  77. Navajo
  78. Nepali
  79. Nivkh
  80. Norwegian
  81. Oromo
  82. Panjabi
  83. Pashto
  84. Persian
  85. Polish
  86. Portuguese
  87. Quechua
  88. Romanian
  89. Romany
  90. Russian
  91. Sami
  92. Samoan
  93. Sanskrit
  94. Scottish Gaelic
  95. Serbo-Croat (Croatian and Serbian)
  96. Shona
  97. Sinhala
  98. Slovak
  99. Slovene
  100. Somali
  101. Spanish
  102. Sundanese
  103. Swahili
  104. Swedish
  105. Tagalog
  106. Tamil
  107. Telugu
  108. Thai
  109. Tibetan
  110. Turkish
  111. Ukrainian
  112. Urdu
  113. Uzbek
  114. Vietnamese
  115. Welsh
  116. Wolof
  117. Yiddish
  118. Yoruba
  119. Zulu
  120. Comparative grid of numbers 1–10 (alphabetical listing)
  121. Comparative grid of numbers 1–10 (genetic listing)
  122. Appendix of scripts
  123. Classification of languages by family relationship
  124. Bibliography