TY - BOOK AU - Comrie,Bernard ED - Oxford University Press. TI - The World's major languages SN - 0195065115 AV - P371 .W6 1987 PY - 1990///] CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Language and languages N1 - "For the 1989 [sic] number of minor errors have been corrected and bibliographical material has been updated." --Pref; Includes bibliographies and index; Introduction; / Bernard Comrie; --Indo-European languages; / Philip Baldi; --Germanic languages; / John A. Hawkins; --English; / Edward Finegan; --German; / John A. Hawkins; --Dutch; / Jan G. Kooij; --Danish, Norwegian and Swedish; / Einar Haugen; --Latin and the Italic languages; / R.G.G. Coleman; --Romance languages; / John N. Green; --French; / Martin Harris; --Spanish; / John N. Green; --Portuguese; / Stephen Parkinson; --Italian; / Nigel Vincent; --Rumanian; / Graham Mallinson; --Slavonic languages; / Bernard Comrie; --Russian; / Bernard Comrie; --Polish; / Gerald Stone; --Czech and Slovak --David Short; --Serbo-Croat; / Greville Corbett; --Greek; / Brian D. Joseph --Indo-Aryan languages; / George Cardona; --Sanskrit; / George Cardona; --Hindi-Urdu; / Yamuna Kachru; -- Bengali; / M.H. Klaiman; --Iranian languages; / J.R. Payne; --Persian; / Gernot L. Windfuhr; --Pashto; / D.N. Mackenzie; --Uralic languages; / Robert Austerlitz; --Hungarian; / Daniel Abondolo; --Finnish; / Michael Branch; --Turkish and the Turkic languages; / Jaklin Kornfilt --; Afroasiatic languages; / Robert Hetzron; --Semitic languages; / Robert Hetzron; --Arabic; / Alan S. Kaye; --Hebrew; / Robert Hetzron; --Hausa and the Chadic languages; / Paul Newman; --Tamil and the Dravidian languages; / Sanford B. Steever; --Tai languages; / David Strecker; --Thai; / Thomas John Hudak; --Vietnamese; / ����nh-Ho�� Nguy����n; --Sino-Tibetan languages; / Scott Delancey; --Chinese; / Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson; --Burmese; / Julian K. Wheatley; --Japanese; / Masayoshi Shibatani; --Korean; / Nam-Kil Kim; --Austronesian languages; / Ross Clark; --Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian); / D.J. Prentice; --Tagalog; / Paul Schachter; --Niger-Kordofanian languages; / Douglas Pulleyblank; --Yoruba; / Douglas Pulleyblank; --Swahili and the Bantu languages; / Benji Wald ER -