Concise Compendium of the World's LanguagesFrom Afrikaans to Zulu, almost 100 languages from the comprehensive Compendium of the World's Languages are featured in this new concise version. Many articles have been revised. The Concise Compendium presents a detailed comparative study of the major and many of the lesser known languages of the world. Included are representatives of all language families, with samples of Amerindian, such as Navajo and of African languages, such as Fulani and Nama; languages of politically independent groups in the former USSR, like Uzbek and Belorussian; those of political pressure groups, such as Breton and Catalan and significant community/ethnic languages, including Amharic and Vietnamese. Throughout, the treatment is factual and jargon-free. Articles are ordered alphabetically and each has a standard structure for ease of reference: * general historical and sociolinguistic introduction * writing system * sound system * grammatical system A passage from the Gospel of St. John illustrates each language with a written tradition. These scripts are explained in an appendix at the end of the book. Presents 100 of the world's major languages and representatives of different language groups, politically significant languages and particularly interesting ones. |
Contents
III | 1 |
IV | 6 |
V | 11 |
VI | 18 |
VII | 24 |
VIII | 33 |
IX | 39 |
X | 44 |
LIX | 319 |
LX | 324 |
LXI | 329 |
LXII | 333 |
LXIII | 339 |
LXIV | 345 |
LXV | 350 |
LXVI | 354 |
XI | 48 |
XII | 49 |
XIII | 58 |
XIV | 64 |
XV | 69 |
XVI | 75 |
XVII | 80 |
XVIII | 87 |
XIX | 92 |
XX | 98 |
XXI | 103 |
XXII | 108 |
XXIII | 113 |
XXIV | 118 |
XXV | 124 |
XXVI | 130 |
XXVII | 135 |
XXVIII | 137 |
XXIX | 143 |
XXX | 157 |
XXXI | 163 |
XXXII | 170 |
XXXIII | 178 |
XXXIV | 183 |
XXXV | 189 |
XXXVI | 197 |
XXXVII | 204 |
XXXVIII | 208 |
XXXIX | 213 |
XL | 219 |
XLI | 225 |
XLII | 230 |
XLIII | 236 |
XLIV | 242 |
XLV | 247 |
XLVI | 249 |
XLVII | 254 |
XLVIII | 260 |
XLIX | 267 |
L | 272 |
LI | 277 |
LII | 282 |
LIII | 288 |
LIV | 293 |
LV | 298 |
LVI | 303 |
LVII | 309 |
LVIII | 314 |
LXVII | 360 |
LXVIII | 365 |
LXIX | 369 |
LXX | 374 |
LXXI | 379 |
LXXII | 384 |
LXXIII | 389 |
LXXIV | 396 |
LXXV | 401 |
LXXVI | 407 |
LXXVII | 413 |
LXXVIII | 419 |
LXXIX | 425 |
LXXX | 435 |
LXXXI | 440 |
LXXXII | 448 |
LXXXIII | 454 |
LXXXIV | 461 |
LXXXV | 465 |
LXXXVI | 470 |
LXXXVII | 474 |
LXXXVIII | 478 |
LXXXIX | 484 |
XC | 490 |
XCI | 497 |
XCII | 501 |
XCIII | 507 |
XCIV | 512 |
XCV | 518 |
XCVI | 525 |
XCVII | 531 |
XCVIII | 536 |
XCIX | 543 |
C | 547 |
CI | 554 |
CII | 560 |
CIII | 562 |
CIV | 563 |
CV | 567 |
CVI | 573 |
CVII | 581 |
CVIII | 582 |
CIX | 588 |
CX | 593 |
CXI | 601 |
CXII | 655 |
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Common terms and phrases
affix affricates Arabic auxiliary Bantu languages base broken plural century Chinese compound concord conjugation consonantal consonants dative declension definite article DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN/ADJECTIVE denoting Devanagari dialect diphthongs enclitic endings English example feminine formation fricatives future genitive grammatical gender h nasals imperative imperfective indicative infinitive inflected INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN lateral and flap literary language locative marked for gender masc masculine million Modern mood MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX negated negative neuter nominative notated object palatalized passive past participle past tense perfective perfective aspect person forms person singular phonemic PHONOLOGY PHONOLOGY Consonants stops plural forms plural marker possessive Postpositions prefix Prepositions present tense pronominal RELATIVE PRONOUN root Sanskrit script second person semi-vowels sing Singular Plural Slavonic spoken stem Stress subjunctive suffix syllable SYNTAX Noun third person tone transitive verbs verbal voiced vowel vowel harmony Word order write