Hoshino Tatsuo, Marcus Russell. Lao for beginners - An introduction to the spoken and written language of Laos

(автор неизвестен) Peace Corps Vanuatu, 2010. - 20 p. Bislama is the national language of the Republic of Vanuatu. It is a pidgin derived from English, French and indigenous languages that is spoken throughout the country as the lingua franca; a common tongue which enables communication between the many different language communities of Vanuatu. There are more than one hundred recognized languages spoken in Vanuatu by the approximately 220, 00...

Alice Rose Gaby. A Grammar of Kuuk Thaayorre. Melbourne. 2006. 649 p. This thesis is a comprehensive description of Kuuk Thaayorre, a Paman language spoken on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula, Australia. On the basis of elicited data, narrative and semi-spontaneous conversation recorded between 2002 and 2005, this grammar details the phonetics and phonology, morphosyntax, lexical and constructional semantics and pragmatics of one of the few...

American Philosophical Society, 1980. - 466 p. Three closely related languages are spoken in Truk State, Federated States of Micronesia: Trukese, Mortlockese, & Puluwatese. Trukese has by far the largest number of of speakers in the Truk state. Building on the dictionary by Samuel H. Elbert, published in 1947, this dictionary representes the Trukese language as it is spoken in the lagoon islands of Truk. It also includes an introduction whic...

Not known, 1998. Burushaski (stress on the second syllable) is spoken by some fifty thousand people in northern Pakistan, the Hunzakuts, who live in the valleys of the Hunza and Yasin rivers (north of Gilgit) where these cut through the Karakoram Range [lit.ref. 5]. The language is not obviously related to any of the surrounding languages: the Indic languages of Pakistan or the Tibetan languages of China and northern Kashmir.

(автор неизвестен) Corps Foreign Language Training Center, 367 p. Tamil (?????) is a classical language and one of the major languages of the Dravidian language family. Spoken predominantly by Tamils in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore, it has smaller communities of speakers in many other countries, with over 74 million speakers worldwide. It is one of the official languages of India, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Tamil is one of the...

Koul O. N. , Kashi Wali Kashmiri: A Cognitive-Descriptive Grammar Routledge, 1996. - 394 p. Kashmir boasts a language which challenges every field of linguistics. Kashmiri is spoken by approximately 3,000,000 people. Its syntax, similar to Germanic and other verb second languages, has raised many significant issues within current generative theories proposed by Chomsky and other prominent linguists. Kashmiri, spoken in Kashmir, India, challeng...

Kynoch D. , Hamilton J. Teach Yourself Doric: A Course for Beginners. - Scottish Cultural Press, 1994. - 88 p. (Учебник одного из диалектов скотса (англо-шотландского языка). ) This Doric primer appears at a time when the considerable threat to the North-east tongue seems to be matched by a determination that it should not be allowed to die without a struggle. The language used here is, generally speaking, the lively, if somewhat diluted, form...

Onishi, Masayuki (1994). A grammar of Motuna (Bougainville, Papua New Guinea). PhD thesis, Australian National University. This thesis is a descriptive grammar of Motuna, aNon-Austronesian language spoken by several thousand people in the south-westem part of Bougainville (called Siwai), Papua New Guinea. It belongs to the Buin Family of the Eastern Bougainville stock, in the Bougainville Phylum. This grammar is based on the analysis of narrativ...

Refsing, Kirsten (1986). The Ainu language: the morphology and syntax of the Shizunai dialect. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 301 pp. The Ainu Language is organized into two major sections. Part I, "Introduction", is an excellent overview and summary of the previous work on the Ainu language, from the earliest seventeenth-centuryr eferences, to the pioneering works of Kindaichi and Chiri, and to the modern, postwar research by Japanese linguis...

University of Calcutta, 1943. - 138 p. The aim of the author is principally to introduce the Prakrit language to students who have to study the epigraphs written in that language. An attempt has been made in these pages to describe Prakrit as it was known to the earlier grammarians Vararuchi, Katyayana and Bhamaha, with special reference to Pali, Epigraphic Prakrit and the works of such medieval authorities as Hemachandra and Purushottama.