Author: Andrew Dalby
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: languages, reference, definitive, dictionary
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0231115695
ISBN-13: 9780231115698

This new tome of tongues is one of the most remarkable general reference works of the century. From Abkhaz and Abaza (300,000 speakers in Georgia, Turkey, and Russia) to Zulu (8,800,000 speakers in South Africa and Lesotho), Dalby comprehensively details more than 400 languages (living and dead), arranged A-to-Z for easy access, and delving into the political, social, and historical background of each. In addition, more than 200 maps indicate where the languages are spoken today, while sidebars show alphabets, numerals, and anecdotes. If you’ve got even a passing interest in linguistics,

Author: K David Harrison
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: languages, knowledge, human, world, extinction, erosion
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-07-21
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0195372069
ISBN-13: 9780195372069

It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison’s book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in a language’s structure and vocabulary? And how harmful is it to humanity that such knowledge

Authors:B. P. Mahapatra, P. Padmanabha,
Publisher: Pr De L’universite Laval
Keywords: languages, book, non, constitutional, modes, degree, world, survey, written
Published: 1989-12
List price: $59.00
ISBN-10: 2763771963
ISBN-13: 9782763771960

Author: K. David Harrison
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: languages, oxford, studies, sociolinguistics, knowledge, human, extinction, world, erosion
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 0195181921
ISBN-13: 9780195181920

It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison’s book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in a language’s structure and vocabulary? And how harmful is it to humanity that such knowledg

Authors:Helena Curtain, Carol Ann Dahlberg,
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Keywords: languages, learners, grades, new, match, children, making
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2003-09-18
List price: $81.80
ISBN-10: 0205366759
ISBN-13: 9780205366750

With a focus on communicative language teaching as it reflects cognitive and second language acquisition theory, this classic in the field provides a wealth of strategies and activities ready to use in the K-8 classroom. Languages and Children: Making the Match, Third Edition, has been thoroughly revised and updated. Standards-based planning and instruction are the guiding principles throughout the book. This long-awaited third edition provides extensive new information that is not easily accessible to the field. Publishing this information in one source is a tremendous service to methods inst

Authors:Heinz Kloss, Grant D. McConnell,
Publisher: Pr De L’universite Laval
Keywords: languages, india, book, constitutional, modes, degree, world, survey, written
Published: 1989-12
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 2763771866
ISBN-13: 9782763771861

Authors:Bernard Comrie, Stephen Matthews, Maria Polinsky,
Publisher: Facts on File
Keywords: languages, library, language, series, file, literature, world, origin, development, throughout, atlas, facts
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-04
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0816051232
ISBN-13: 9780816051236

This work fully documents the origin and development of languages throughout the world. Starting with the evolution and spread of language systems, it then explains language families by area, covering regions as diverse as Eurasia, Africa and the Americas. The atlas also explores the ebb and flow of languages, how certain languages have died out, and how new words emerge and are incorporated into everyday use. In addition, the book covers ancient and modern alphabet systems, from the hieroglyphics of Ancient Egypt and the characters of Far Eastern forms, to Greek and Roman alphabets.