Languages In The World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Languages In The World write by Julie Tetel Andresen. This book was released on 2016-01-19. Languages In The World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative introduction outlines the structure and distribution of the world’s languages, charting their evolution over the past 200,000 years. Balances linguistic analysis with socio-historical and political context, offering a cohesive picture of the relationship between language and society Provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the study of language by drawing not only on the diverse fields of linguistics (structural, linguist anthropology, historical, sociolinguistics), but also on history, biology, genetics, sociology, and more Includes nine detailed language profiles on Kurdish, Arabic, Tibetan, Hawaiian, Vietnamese, Tamil, !Xóõ (Taa), Mongolian, and Quiché A companion website offers a host of supplementary materials including, sound files, further exercises, and detailed introductory information for students new to linguistics
Languages of the World
Languages of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Languages of the World write by Asya Pereltsvaig. This book was released on 2012-02-09. Languages of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduces readers to the rich diversity of human languages, familiarizing them with the variety of languages around the world.
An Introduction to the Languages of the World
An Introduction to the Languages of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Introduction to the Languages of the World write by Anatole Lyovin. This book was released on 2017. An Introduction to the Languages of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The only textbook of its kind, An Introduction to the Languages of the World is designed to introduce beginning linguistics students, who now typically start their study with little background in languages, to the variety of the languages of the world.
The World's Major Languages
The World's Major Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World's Major Languages write by Bernard Comrie. This book was released on 2018-04-17. The World's Major Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The World's Major Languages features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. This revised edition includes updated bibliographies for each chapter and up-to-date census figures. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language's history and cultural role. The World’s Major Languages is an accessible and essential reference work for linguists.
Babel
Babel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Babel write by Gaston Dorren. This book was released on 2018-12-04. Babel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Babel is an endlessly interesting book, and you don’t have to have any linguistic training to enjoy it . . . it’s just so much fun to read.” —NPR English is the world language, except that 80 percent of the world doesn’t speak it. Linguist Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s people in their mother tongues, you’d need to know no fewer than twenty languages. In Babel, he sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali). Whisking readers along on a delightful journey, he traces how these languages rose to greatness while others fell away, and shows how speakers today handle the foibles of their mother tongues. Whether showcasing tongue-tying phonetics, elegant but complicated writing scripts, or mind-bending quirks of grammar, Babel vividly illustrates that mother tongues are like nations: each has its own customs and beliefs that seem as self-evident to those born into it as they are surprising to outsiders. Babel reveals why modern Turks can’t read books that are a mere 75 years old, what it means in practice for Russian and English to be relatives, and how Japanese developed separate “dialects” for men and women. Dorren also shares his experiences studying Vietnamese in Hanoi, debunks ten myths about Chinese characters, and discovers the region where Swahili became the lingua franca. Witty and utterly fascinating, Babel will change how you look at and listen to the world. “Word nerds of every strain will enjoy this wildly entertaining linguistic study.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
