Tables of Contents for The Languages of the World

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Tables of Contents for The Languages of the World

Chapter/Section Title

Page #

Page Count

Acknowledgments

vii

Preface

ix

PART I Language families of the world

1

34

Chart

2

8

Indo-European languages

10

6

Uralic languages

16

2

Altaic languages

18

1

Caucasian languages

19

1

Dravidian languages

20

1

Munda languages

21

1

Sino-Tibetan languages

22

1

Mon-Khmer languages

22

1

Austronesian languages

23

1

Papuan languages

24

1

Australian languages

25

1

Paleo-Asiatic languages

25

1

Eskimo-Aleut languages

26

1

Niger-Congo languages

26

1

Afro-Asiatic languages

27

2

Chari-Nile languages

29

1

Khoisan languages

30

1

American Indian languages

30

2

Artificial languages

32

1

Pidgin and creole languages

32

3

PART II Individual languages

35

302

Europe

37

72

Former Soviet Union

109

42

Middle East

151

18

Asia

169

72

Oceania

241

8

Western Hemisphere

249

38

Africa

287

46

An artificial language

333

4

PART III Country-by-country survey

337

32

Sources of individual passages

369

8

Index of languages and language families

377