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Tables of Contents for The World's Major Languages
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
List of Abbreviations
xi
Introduction
1
30
Bernard Comrie
Indo-European Languages
31
37
Philip Baldi
Germanic Languages
68
9
John A. Hawkins
English
77
33
Edward Finegan
German
110
29
John A. Hawkins
Dutch
139
18
Jan G. Kooij
Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
157
23
Einar Haugen
Latin and the Italic Languages
180
23
R.G.G. Coleman
Romance Languages
203
7
John N. Green
French
210
26
Martin Harris
Spanish
236
24
John N. Green
Portuguese
260
19
Stephen Parkinson
Italian
279
24
Nigel Vincent
Rumanian
303
19
Graham Mallinson
Slavonic Languages
322
7
Bernard Comrie
Russian
329
19
Bernard Comrie
Polish
348
19
Gerald Stone
Czech and Slovak
367
24
David Short
Serbo-Croat
391
19
Greville Corbett
Greek
410
30
Brian D. Joseph
Indo-Aryan Languages
440
8
George Cardona
Sanskrit
448
22
George Cardona
Hindi-Urdu
470
20
Yamuna Kachru
Bengali
490
24
M.H. Klaiman
Iranian Languages
514
9
J.R. Payne
Persian
523
24
Gernot L. Windfuhr
Pashto
547
20
D.N. Mackenzie
Uralic Languages
567
10
Robert Austerlitz
Hungarian
577
16
Daniel Abondolo
Finnish
593
26
Michael Branch
Turkish and the Turkic Languages
619
26
Jaklin Kornfilt
Afroasiatic Languages
645
9
Robert Hetzron
Semitic Languages
654
10
Robert Hetzron
Arabic
664
22
Alan S. Kaye
Hebrew
686
19
Robert Hetzron
Hausa and the Chadic Languages
705
20
Paul Newman
Tamil and the Dravidian Languages
725
22
Sanford B. Steever
Tai Languages
747
10
David Strecker
Thai
757
20
Thomas John Hudak
Vietnamese
777
20
Dinh-Hoa Nguyen
Sino-Tibetan Languages
797
14
Scott Delancey
Chinese
811
23
Charles N. Li
Sandra A. Thompson
Burmese
834
21
Julian K. Wheatley
Japanese
855
26
Masayoshi Shibatani
Korean
881
18
Nam-Kil Kim
Austronesian Languages
899
14
Ross Clark
Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian)
913
23
D.J. Prentice
Tagalog
936
23
Paul Schachter
Niger-Kordofanian Languages
959
12
Douglas Pulleyblank
Yoruba
971
20
Douglas Pulleyblank
Swahili and the Bantu Languages
991
24
Benji Wald
Language Index
1015