Language Isolates
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Language Isolates

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Language Isolates

About this book

Language Isolates explores this fascinating group of languages that surprisingly comprise a third of the world's languages.

Individual chapters written by experts on these languages examine the world's major language isolates and language isolates by geographic regions, with up-to-date descriptions of many, including previously unrecorded language isolates. Each language isolate represents a unique lineage and a unique window on what is possible in human language, making this an essential volume for anyone interested in understanding the diversity of languages and the very nature of human language.

Language Isolates is key reading for professionals and students in linguistics and anthropology.

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781138821057
eBook ISBN
9781317610915
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Languages
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of figures
  6. List of maps
  7. List of tables
  8. List of contributors
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Language isolates and their history
  11. 2 Ancient Near Eastern and European isolates
  12. 3 Basque and the reconstruction of isolated languages
  13. 4 Ainu
  14. 5 Burushaski
  15. 6 Other isolated languages of Asia
  16. 7 African language isolates
  17. 8 Language isolates of North America
  18. 9 Language isolates of Mesoamerica and Northern Mexico
  19. 10 Language isolates in South America
  20. 11 Language isolates in the New Guinea region
  21. 12 Language isolates of Australia
  22. 13 Endangerment of language isolates
  23. Index

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