The Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa
Bernard Comrie
Based on the much-praised The World's Major Languages, this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to describe the development, grammar sound and writing system, and sociological factors of the major language families in these areas.
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Contents
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Preface
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IndoAryan Languages
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HindiUrdu
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Bengali
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Iranian Languages
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Pashto
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Afroasiatic Languages
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Semitic Languages
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Hebrew
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Hausa and the Chadic Languages
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Tamil and the Dravidian Languages
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NigerKordofanian Languages
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Yoruba
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Swahili and the Bantu Languages
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Common terms and phrases
adjectives adverbial Afroasiatic Akkadian aorist Arabic Bantu languages basic Bengali Biblical Hebrew century Chadic Chadic languages clause Common Bantu compound consonant consonantal construction Cushitic derived Devanāgarī dialects direct object distinction Dravidian languages English example expressed feminine forms function gender genetic genitive grammar Hausa Hindi Hindi-Urdu imperfect indicates Indo-Aryan languages Indo-European inflected intransitive Iranian languages lexical linguistic major languages marked marker masculine Middle Indo-Aryan Middle Persian Modern Bengali Modern Hebrew modern standard Tamil morphology nasal nasalised Niger-Congo nominal noun classes noun phrase oblique occur Old Indo-Aryan Old Persian original Pāli participle Pashto passive past perfect person singular phonemes phonological plural postposition predicate prepositional pronominal pronouns reduplication reference relative retroflex root Sanskrit script semantic Semitic sentence speakers spoken stem stress subjunctive suffix Swahili syllable syntactic syntax Tamil third person tone Vedic verb verbal voiceless vowel word order Yoruba