The Atlas Of Unusual Languages

Author : Zoran Nikolic
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008524041
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atlas of Unusual Languages: An exploration of language, people and geography written by Zoran Nikolic and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We communicate through the spoken and written word and language has evolved over the centuries. Many languages have survived although only in small pockets throughout the world. This book explores a selection of those languages.

Author : Zoran Nikolic
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008469597
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atlas of Unusual Languages written by Zoran Nikolic and published by Collins. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We communicate through the spoken and written word and language has evolved over the centuries. Many languages have survived although only in small pockets throughout the world. This book explores a selection of those languages and some that have now been lost forever. Selection of languages included; ISLANDS OF LANGUAGE ISOLATES - Basque language, Spain/France - Ainu, Japan/Russia - Burushaski, Pakistan - Huave language, Mexico INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE ISLANDS - u er-Sandevo; Selemlija, N. Macedoniae - Trinidadian French Creole, Trinidad & Tobago - Y Wladfa, a Welsh colony in Argentina - Cornish language - Vakifli, Turkey - Bolze language of Switzerland NON-IE LANGUAGE ISLANDS IN EUROPE - Ugric languages - Gagauz language - Kalmyk Oirat language LANGUAGE ISLANDS AROUND THE WORLD - Yele language, Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea - Formosan languages - Kumzari language, Oman "WEIRD" LANGUAGES - Polari language, UK - Shelta traveller language of Ireland EXTINCT LANGUAGE ISLANDS - Sumerian language - Potato Germans in Denmark - Crimean Gothic These and many more instances are captured in this fascinating book full of strange language intrigue.

Author : Susanne Maria Michaelis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199691398
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures written by Susanne Maria Michaelis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlas presents commentaries and colour maps showing how 130 linguistic features - phonological, syntactic, morphological, and lexical - are distributed among the world's pidgins and creoles. Designed and written by the world's leading experts, it is a unique resource of outstanding value for linguists of all persuasions throughout the world.

Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191531243
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Atlas of Language Structures written by Martin Haspelmath and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description of the structural feature in question. The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages. The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to be without it.

Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Checkmark Books
ISBN 13 : 9780816051236
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atlas of Languages written by Bernard Comrie and published by Checkmark Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an introduction to languages and linguistics, including the evolution of over 200 languages, explanations of writing systems, language trees, and maps illustrating various aspects of all the language families.

Author : Wurm, Stephen A.
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9231037986
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlas of the world's languages in danger of disappearing written by Wurm, Stephen A. and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2001-07-17 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close to half of the 6,000 languges spoken in the world are doomed or likely to disappear in the foreseeable future. The disappearance of any language is an irreparable loss for the heritage of all humankind. This new edition of the Atlas, first published in 1996, is intended to give a graphic picture of the magnitude of the problem and a comprehensive list of languages in danger.

Author : Marian Barry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521140641
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practice Tests for IGCSE English as a Second Language: Reading and Writing Book 2 written by Marian Barry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tests will help familiarise students with the format and requirements of the Reading and Writing/Listening and Speaking papers. Book 2 contains four further Extended-level tests. The tests will help familiarise students with the format and requirements of the Reading and Writing papers. Teachers will find them a valuable source of stimulating practice material which will engage the interest of students at this level, particularly those preparing for academic study. The material is also recommended for use with non-exam students at intermediate to upper-intermediate level.

Author : Marian Barry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052114065X
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practice Tests for IGCSE English as a Second Language: Reading and Writing Book 2, with Key written by Marian Barry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tests will help familiarise students with the format and requirements of the Reading and Writing/Listening and Speaking papers. Book 2 contains four further Extended-level tests. The tests will help familiarise students with the format and requirements of the Reading and Writing papers. Teachers will find them a valuable source of stimulating practice material which will engage the interest of students at this level, particularly those preparing for academic study. The material is also recommended for use with non-exam students at intermediate to upper-intermediate level. Model summaries and compositions are included in this With Key edition.

Author : National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426203322
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Geographic Visual Atlas of the World written by National Geographic Society (U.S.) and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, up-to-date atlas encompasses more than three hundred thematic maps, along with more than six hundred color photographs, illustrations, charts, and graphs, that document the world's natural and cultural wonders.

Author : R.E. Asher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317851080
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlas of the World's Languages written by R.E. Asher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.