An insider’s tour through the construction of invented languages, from the bestselling author and creator of languages for the HBO seriesGame of Thrones and the SyFy series DefianceFrom superstar ling
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This is the leading beginner Tagalog textbook and language learning package.Elementary Tagalog's comprehensive approach will help students master Tagalog, the language of the Philippines, also known a
The Tuttle Concise Tagalog Dictionary gives you the most complete and up-to-date translations from English to Tagalog/Filipino and is the most current dictionary available today. With a user-friendly
The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate truly began over a hundred years ago, when the increasin
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In Voice and v, Julie Anne Legate investigates the syntacticstructure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting point. A central claim is that voice isencoded in a functional projection, Voic
Easy Tagalog brings the language and culture of the Philippines alive, giving you all the basics you need to start speaking basic Tagalog immediately. The opening chapters introduce the essentials of
In Voice and v, Julie Anne Legate investigates the syntacticstructure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting point. A central claim is that voice isencoded in a functional projection, Voic
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At last, a way to improve your Tagalog! Written by Joi Barrios as the continuation of her best-selling Tagalog for Beginners book, Intermediate Tagalog is the first intermediate-level book designed sp
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This volume provides the first comprehensive description of Bilinarra, a Pama-Nyungan language of the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory (Australia). Bilinarra is a highly endangered la
Photographs, copies, transliterations, and commentary on previously unpublished cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia. These are the very earliest tablets discovered.
This massive treatment of the Owa language, which is based primarily in the Solomon Islands, includes a grammar sketch, a phonology, noun phrases, verbs, verb phrases, clause structure, sentences, and
This new volume of the Language Family Series presents an overview of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian languages, spread across a region embracing eastern Indonesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and
Koora, Noongar keny dwoort boolarang. Baalang Ngoonang dwoort. Baal djerabiny dwoortang daatjak ngardanginy. / One day a long time ago, one of our people went hunting. He had his own as well as his br
Noongar maam, yok, moyer nyinelangayny bardlanginy wadjela kookondjari-ang. / A woman, and a man, and his nephew were shepherding sheep. Presented bilingually in English and Aboriginal Noongar langu
This elegant, expert, and utterly up-to-date book contains over 1,500 samples from New Zealand’s distinctive vocabulary.The informative introduction examines the development of New Zealand English, th
Fieldwork for this study began in 1981-82, at which time Tauya (of the Madang family) was the language of daily life for the 400 people living in the Ramu River valley in Papua New Guinea. Children an
