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Özet
This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countries, and up-to-date data on populations.
Features include:
*information on nearly 600 languages
*individual descriptions of 200 languages, with sample passages and English translations
*concise notes on where each language is spoken, its history, alphabet and pronunciation
*coverage of every country in the world, its main language and speaker numbers
*an introduction to language families
Özet
This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countries, and up-to-date data on populations.
Features include:
*information on nearly 600 languages
*individual descriptions of 200 languages, with sample passages and English translations
*concise notes on where each language is spoken, its history, alphabet and pronunciation
*coverage of every country in the world, its main language and speaker numbers
*an introduction to language families
Author Notes
Prior to his recent retirement, Kenneth Katzner worked for the US government and also served as an editor on a number of international encyclopedias and English dictionaries. He is also author of a large English-Russian/Russian-English Dictionary.
Prior to his recent retirement, Kenneth Katzner worked for the US government and also served as an editor on a number of international encyclopedias and English dictionaries. He is also author of a large English-Russian/Russian-English Dictionary.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Part I Language Families of the World | p. 1 |
| Language Families of the World | p. 2 |
| Indo-European Languages | p. 10 |
| Altaic Languages | p. 18 |
| Caucasian Languages | p. 19 |
| Munda Languages | p. 21 |
| Sino-Tibetan Languages | p. 22 |
| Australian Languages | p. 25 |
| Khoisan Languages | p. 30 |
| Artificial Languages | p. 32 |
| Part II Individual Languages | p. 35 |
| Languages of Europe | p. 37 |
| Languages of the Former Soviet Union | p. 109 |
| Languages of the Middle East | p. 151 |
| Languages of Asia | p. 169 |
| Languages of Oceania | p. 241 |
| Languages of the Western Hemisphere | p. 249 |
| Languages of Africa | p. 287 |
| An Artificial Language | p. 333 |
| Part III Country-By-Country Survey | p. 337 |
| Sources of Individual Passages | p. 369 |
| Index | p. 377 |