A Guide to the World's Languages

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• Author(s): Merritt Ruhlen,
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Pages: 492
• ISBN_10: 0804718946
  ISBN_13: 9780804718943
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / General ,

Description:... This is the first of three pathbreaking volumes that will constitute a wide-ranging analytical guide to the world's approximately 5,000 languages. The volumes are written for both linguists and general readers, and this first volume in particular assumes no background in linguistics. A postscript prepared for this paperback edition takes research data to 1990. The book is illustrated with 21 maps.