Here is the captivating story of humankind’s enduring quest to build a better language—and overcome the curse of Babel. Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man’
This is the most useful and comprehensive English-Tahitian, Tahitian-English dictionary available. The author, who was a devoted student of Tahitian for more than three decades, provides an extensive
Austronesian is the largest language family on earth: Some 1300 languages, 20% of the world's total, are spoken by 270 million people in a region that extends from Easter Island in the Pacific 10,000
Gagana Samoa is a modern Samoan language resource. Designed for both classroom and personal use, it features a methodical approach suitable for all ages; an emphasis on patterns of speech and communic
Provides translations and full contexts for the terminology in the Garshana documents and is an indispensable tool for anyone working on texts from third-millennium Mesopotamia.This volume provides a
Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of linguistic solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon, whi
This book is designed for both classroom use and self-study. Each of the 13 lessons opens with a dialogue about an everyday topic, followed by vocabulary lists, explanations of grammar, and exercises.
In all of the most common travel situations,nonnatives need the reassurance thatthey can communicate with ease. A reliable, portable, and easy-to-use phrasebook is a travel essential, and
This book is the first complete analysis of and comment on a unique Etruscan document, the Liber linteus zagrabiensis, the linen book of Zagreb, better known as the Mummy Wrappings of Zagreb, dated to
Full of cultural tips and hints on local protocol, the South Pacific phrasebook will help you through situations ranging from visiting a New Zealand marae or enjoying one of Tonga's Heilala celebratio
Word Structure in Ngalakgan is the first major theoretical work on the phonology and morphology of an Australian language in 20 years.Ngalakgan is a non-configurational, polysynthetic, and agglutinati
The Garshana archives detail the administration of various aspects of a household associated with the royal estate of the general and physician Shu-Kabta and his wife, the princess Simat-Ishtaran.This
This volume explores various problems in the syntax of Austronesian languages, which are found primarily in Malaysia and the Polynesian islands. Using the framework of constraint-based theories of syn
A pre-Indo-European language with no known relatives, the Basque language survives inthe Basque region of Spain and France, with about half a million native or near-native speakers. Thelocal diversity
Conversational Tagalog includes the first 16 lessons from the Pimsleur Comprehensive Tagalog Level I program. This Conversational program contains 8 hours of interactive audio-only instruction, effec
Mäori, the indigenous language of New Zealand, is an endangered, minority language, with an important role in the Mäori community's culture and identity. This comprehensive overview looks at all aspec
The tablets belong to the late fourth millennium BCE and range from proto-literate to Uruk III/Jemdet-Nasr periods.The texts presented in this volume are provided with photographs, copies, and transli
