The World's Major Languages features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. This revised edition includes updated bibliographies for each chapt

Provides linguistic descriptions of a selected assortment of languages from renowned scholars, as well as historical and cultural information for each language.

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 th

Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language

Many languages, particularly those which have achieved literary status, have been studied in great detail, and specialized descriptions of these are plentiful.