This is an encyclopedia of writing systems, scripts and orthographies of all the world's major languages, past and present.
Hurrian became extinct at the end of the 2nd millennium B.C., except in a few remote areas in the Kurdish mountains, where it may have survived for another 500 ... Akkadian, on the other hand, is a language belonging to the closely ...
These metaphors suggest a view of languages as natural beings of which a pure, original form can and should be found and used ... and establishing the legitimacy of a language.7 Writing means pouring something liquid into solid forms.
This book presents an in-depth overview of the social and economic implications of this development.
... Japan's population implosion. This is evident from several demographic forecasts that had to be repeatedly revised. Population projections in the mid-1970s, assuming continuous though slowing growth, saw Japan's total population ...
... motivations for borrowing have been analysed for various languages . A historically interesting case is that of ... Codeswitching Worldwide . Berlin and New York : Mouton de Gruyter . 2001. Language alternation : the third kind of ...
With Forked Tongues: What are National Languages Good For?
... des Dr. Esperanto (Dr. L. Samenhof) von Chr. Schmidt, Worstand des ... amis dans differents pays. Le nombre deces amis saccroit tous les jours ... toujours des communications du progrès de notre cause ainsi que des propositions et des ...
The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science.