One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and LostPeter Austin Presents an overview of the living, endangered, and extinct languages of the world, providing the total number of speakers of the language, its history, and maps of the geographic areas where it is presently spoken or where it was spoken in the past. |
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Africa African languages America Amharic Arabic script Asia Australia Bantu language Bengali Burma Burmese Central century BCE China Chinese closely related coast communities consonants Count culture Cyrillic Devanagari distinct Dravidian languages East eastern endangered English ethnic group European example extinct French German grammar Greek Hausa Hindi India indigenous languages Indo-Aryan language Indo-European influenced Islands Khmer Kirundi known language family large number Latin alphabet lingua franca linguistic literature loanwords main dialects mainly Maithili major language Malayalam Māori meaning million speakers missionaries modern mutually intelligible national languages neighboring Nepal Newar Niger-Congo language nineteenth century North northeastern northern noun number of speakers official language orthography Pakistan percent Persian population Portuguese province Quechua region Republic Roman Russian Sanskrit South southern Spanish speak standard Swahili Tamil Tanzania Tatar Thai Thailand Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Tibeto-Burman language Tigrinya tone traditional Turkic languages Ubykh Urdu Uyghur varieties verb vocabulary vowel West western words written