Grune Dick. Burushaski ? An Extraordinary Language in the Karakoram Mountains

(автор неизвестен) Peace Corps Vanuatu, 2010. - 20 p. Bislama is the national language of the Republic of Vanuatu. It is a pidgin derived from English, French and indigenous languages that is spoken throughout the country as the lingua franca; a common tongue which enables communication between the many different language communities of Vanuatu. There are more than one hundred recognized languages spoken in Vanuatu by the approximately 220, 00...

Fedden O. A Grammar of Mian, a Papuan Language of New Guinea. Melbourne. 2007. 499 p. This thesis is a descriptive grammar of the Mian language of Papua New Guinea. The corpus data on the basis of which I analyzed the structures of the language and their functions was obtained during nine months of field work in Yapsiei and Mianmin, Telefomin District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. The areas of grammar I cover in this thesis are phonology (...

1986 (Cambridge language surveys) Papuan languages In some respects this book may seem premature. Papuan languages are probably the most poorly known in the world; of over 700 languages in more than sixty language families, no more than fifty languages or less than ten per cent are in any sense adequately documented. For some languages little more than a name is available, and for many others only a brief word-list. Indeed, entire language fami...

Giv?n T. The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language. John Benjamins Publishing Company. Amsterdam / Philadelphia. 2002 394 p. Volumes in this series will be functionally and typologically oriented, covering specific topics in language by collecting together data from a wide variety of languages and language typologies. The orientation of the volumes will be substantive rather than formal, with the aim of investigating universals of human lang...

Tuttle Language Library 1995 Lao for Beginners is designed for either self-study or classroom use. It teaches all four language skills - speaking, listening (when used in conjunction with the audio), reading and writing ; and offers clear, easy, step-by-step instruction building on what has been previously learned. There is an audio version that follows the book. Three casettes or three CDs are available separately.

(автор неизвестен) Corps Foreign Language Training Center, 367 p. Tamil (?????) is a classical language and one of the major languages of the Dravidian language family. Spoken predominantly by Tamils in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore, it has smaller communities of speakers in many other countries, with over 74 million speakers worldwide. It is one of the official languages of India, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Tamil is one of the...

Refsing, Kirsten (1986). The Ainu language: the morphology and syntax of the Shizunai dialect. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 301 pp. The Ainu Language is organized into two major sections. Part I, "Introduction", is an excellent overview and summary of the previous work on the Ainu language, from the earliest seventeenth-centuryr eferences, to the pioneering works of Kindaichi and Chiri, and to the modern, postwar research by Japanese linguis...

University of Calcutta, 1943. - 138 p. The aim of the author is principally to introduce the Prakrit language to students who have to study the epigraphs written in that language. An attempt has been made in these pages to describe Prakrit as it was known to the earlier grammarians Vararuchi, Katyayana and Bhamaha, with special reference to Pali, Epigraphic Prakrit and the works of such medieval authorities as Hemachandra and Purushottama.

Alpha | 2003. You're no idiot, of course. You studied a foreign language, you can give good hand signals to a driver parallel parking, and you know when your boss is in a bad mood based on body language. But when it comes to using sign language, you feel like you're all thumbs. Don't throw up your hands yet! When you finish reading The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Sign Language, you'll have enough knowledge of the basic sign handshapes, gra...

Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 282 pages. This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Europe, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapt...