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This second edition of The 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.

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

This second edition of The 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 Cre...

Over 300 of the world's languages, from all language-families, are described on a comparative basis in this two-volume reference work. The author examines the many forms taken by human speech, from "dead" languages associated with cultures of the past, to obscure and isolated tongues.

Over 300 of the most important and interesting languages, from all the language-families, are described in this unique work structured for cross linguistic comparison. It includes many special features as well as 41 language-family articles.

This text presents a reference to the main scripts & alphabets of the world. It presents over 60 alphabets covering an enormous scope of languages, from Amharic & Chinese to Tahi & Cree. Full scripts tables are given for every language & each entry is accompanied by a detailed overview of its historical & linguistic context.

This is a handy reference to the main scripts and alphabets of the world.Forty alphabets are presented and discussed, with entries ranging from the mainstream, such as Amharic, Chinese and Thai, to the more obscure.

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The "The Concise Compendium of the World's Languages" provides clear snapshots of over one hundred languages. Drawn from the more comprehensive two volume Compendium of the World's Languages, the articles selected for this volume discuss most languages spoken today by populations of at least five to ten million people, as well as minor languages that figure prominently in the contemporary socio-political context. This combination allows little...