Языки индейцев
Языки и языкознание
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Su?rez Jorge A. The Mesoamerican Indian Languages
Cambridge Language Surveys
Pages: 223
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (First published 1983 Re-issued in this digitally printed version 2007)
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At least a hundred indigenous Indian languages are known to have been spoken in Mesoamerica, but it is only in the past fifty years that many of them have been adequately described. Professor Su?rez draws together this considerable mass of scholarship in a general survey that will provide an invaluable source of reference.


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