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Daniels, Peter T., Ed.; Bright, William, Ed. – 1996
This survey of the world's written languages consists of a series of historical sketches of different languages, each including a table of signforms in their standard order and their variations, but focusing primarily on how the sounds of the language are represented in writing. A brief text in the language(s) the script is used for is also…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Geographic Distribution
Download full textCalteaux, Karen – 1996
This report provides data on standard and non-standard African language varieties occurring in urban areas of South Africa, drawn from nine smaller reports. It illustrates the language use patterns in black urban communities and describes the language varieties spoken in them. It was found that the impact of non-standard varieties on the use of…
Descriptors: African Languages, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Geographic Distribution
Lyovin, Anatole V. – 1997
The textbook is designed to introduce beginning students of linguistics to the variety of languages of the world. It assumes the reader has mastered the basic principles of linguistics, but seeks background information in the broad range of language phenomena found in the world's languages. Chapters address these topics: classification of…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Geographic Distribution
Campbell, Lyle – 1997
The book offers a general survey of the history of Native American languages. Chapters address these topics: Native American pidgins and trade languages; the history of American Indian linguistics and classification of languages; the origin of Native American languages; languages of North America; languages of Central America; languages of South…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indians, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries
Odumuh, Adama Emmanuel – 1994
A discussion of the situation of Idoma, a Nigerian language, begins with different accounts of the language's origin, referring to both local legend and cosmology. It then proceeds to a review of modern linguists' efforts, since 1927, to classify the language. A statistical overview contains information on the number of speakers of Idoma as a…
Descriptors: African Languages, Alphabets, Community Services, Diachronic Linguistics
Underwood, Gary N. – 1973
What has been labelled mainstream dialectology has been criticized soundly on theoretical grounds, yet mainstream dialectologists have responded with the assertion that their critics have not been intimately familiar with dialect methodology and are therefore not qualified to criticize. Claiming that while theoretical issues are far from being…
Descriptors: Atlases, Dialect Studies, Geographic Distribution, Language Classification
