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One Thousand Languages, Living, Endangered, and Lost

One Thousand Languages, Living, Endangered, and Lost

by Peter Austin (Editor)

  • REFERENCE
  • 2008
  • HARD COVER
  • 288 PAGES

A beautifully illustrated survey of the world's thousands of languages, where they are spoken and how they are interrelated. This visually appealing and thoroughly fascinating book also addresses extinct languages from all over the globe. It's a marvelous introduction to the diversity, evolution and history of languages.  (WLD146, $32.95)


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