One thousand languages : living, endangered, and lost
Presents an overview of the living, endangered, and extinct languages of the world, providing the total number of speakers of the language, its history, and maps of the geographic areas where it is presently spoken or where it was spoken in the past
Print Book, English, ©2008
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2008
Bildband
288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm
9780520255609, 0520255607
192134487
World languages
European languages
North and West African languages
Central, East, and Southern African languages
South Asian languages
Central, Western, and Northern Asian languages
East and Southeast Asian languages
Australia-Pacific languages
Languages of the Americas
Endangered languages
Extinct languages