Presents brief descriptions of the world's language families and their major subdivisions and descriptions of the more important individual national, tribal, and minor languages, with sample texts and translations

The Languages of the World

Reference

Katzner, Kenneth

Words, Language & Grammar

Funk Wagnalls Co

An intriguing collection of passages are reproduced in the native scripts of 200 languages, with a discussion of the characteristics of each language.

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Routledge

This concise reference source provides the reader with a wealth of information on the world's languages and the samples of native script give a fascinating insight into the structures of many unfamiliar and exotic languages. A revealing collection of passages are reproduced in the native scripts of 200 languages, with a discussion of the characteristics of each language.

Catalogs & Directories

This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countries, and up-to-date data on populations.Features include:*information on nearly 600 languages*individual descriptions of 200 languages, with sample passages and English translations*concise notes on where each language is spoken, its history, alphabet and pronunciation*coverage of every country in the world, its main language and speaker numbers*an introduction to language families

Miller, Kirk

This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countries, and up-to-date data on populations. Features include: *information on nearly 600 languages *individual descriptions of 200 languages, with sample passages and English translations *concise notes on where each language is spoken, its history, alphabet and pronunciation *coverage of every country in the world, its main language and speaker numbers *an introduction to language families

English-Russian, Russian-English Dictionary

Based on American rather than British English, this is among the first Russian dictionaries revised for the post-Soviet era. Includes new political terminology, new Russian institutions, new countries and republics and new city names. Contains 26,000 entries in the English-Russian section and 40,000 words in the Russian-English section. Irregularities in Russian declensions and conjugations appear at the beginning of each entry.

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

wiley

Foreign Language Study & Reference

This dictionary of Russian and English emphasizes American usage and spelling and labels each meaning for multi-sense English words. It is written for the non-native speaker/user of Russian.

English-Russian/Russian-English Dictionary

John Wiley&Sons

English-Russian, Russian-English dictionary

Routledge & Kegan Paul Books Ltd

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The Languages of the World

The Languages of the World

The Languages of the World

The Languages of the World

The Languages of the World

English-Russian, Russian-English Dictionary

English-Russian, Russian-English Dictionary

English-Russian/Russian-English Dictionary

English-Russian, Russian-English dictionary

The Languages of the World