CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OF THE WORLD

COORDINATING EDITOR KEITH BROWN University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK

CO-EDITOR SARAH OGILVIE University of Oxford Oxford, UK

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Introduction Eastern List of Abbreviations Akkadian Classification of Languages Southern Ethiopian Semitic Languages Areal Amharic Africa as a Linguistic Area Ga'sz Balkans as a Linguistic Area Tigrinya as a Linguistic Area Europe as a Linguistic Area South Asia as a Linguistic Area as a Linguistic Area Evenki Ancient Egyptian and Coptic Azerbaijanian Bashkir Chuvash Hausa Kazakh Cushitic Languages Kirghiz Highland East Cushitic Languages Tatar Oromo Turkish Somali Turkmen Omotic Languages Uyghur Wolaitta Uzbek Semitic Languages Yakut Eblaite Central Australian Languages Arabic Languages, Varation in Australia: Situation Aramaic and Syriac Mirndi Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Wambaya Hebrew, Israeli Pama-Nyungan Jewish languages Arrernte Maltese Gamilaraay Phoenician Guugu Yimithirr Syriac Jiwarli Ugaritic Kalkutungu xii Subject Classification

Kaytetye Caucasian Languages Morrobalama Abkhaz Pitjantjatjara / Yankunytjatjara Georgian Warlpiri Lak Southern Daly Ngan'gi Chukotko-Kamchatkan Languages Tangkic Kayardild Brahui Tiwi Gondi Kannada Austroasiatic Languges Kurukh Mon-Khmer Languages Malayalam Eastern Tamil Khmer Telugu Northern Toda Khasi Vietnamese Hmong-Mien Languages Wa Indo-European Languages Southern Albanian Mon Anatolian Languages Munda Languages Hittite Santali Armenian Balto-Slavic Languages Baltic Languages Formosan Languages Latvian Malayo-Polynesian Languages Lithuanian Central Slavic Languages Flores Languages Belorussian Malukan Languages Bulgarian Oceanic Church Slavonic Fijian Czech Maori Macedonian Tahitian Old Church Slavonic Tamambo Polish Vures Russian Western 'Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian Linguistic Complex' Balinese Slovak Bikol Slovene Cebuano Sorbian Hawaiian Ukrainian Hiligaynon Celtic Ilocano Breton Javanese Cornish Kapampangan Goidelic Languages Madurese Pictish Malagasy Scots Gaelic Malay Welsh Niuean Germanic Languages North Philippine Languages Afrikaans Riau Indonesian Danish Samar-Leyte Dutch South Philippine Languages English, Old English Tagalog English, Middle English Subject Classification xiii

English, Early Modern Romance Languages English, Later Modern (ca. 1700-1900) Catalan English in the Present Day French English, World Englishes Galician English, African-American Vernacular Italian English, Variation in Nonnative Varieties Jerriais German Occitan Gothic Portuguese Luxembourgish Rhaeto Romance Norse and Icelandic Romanian Norwegian Spanish Scots Tocharian Swedish Yiddish Khoesaan Languages Hellenic -Congo Languages Greek, Ancient Adamawa-Ubangi Greek, Modern Atlantic Congo Languages Indo-Iranian Fulfulde Indo-Aryan Languages Ijo Assamese Wolof Bengali Benue-Congo Languages Dardic Efik Kashmiri Mambila Dhivehi Bantu Languages Domari Gikuyu Gujarati Kinyarwanda Hindi Luganda Hindustani Nyanja Lahnda Shona Marathi Southern Bantu Languages Nepali Swahili Nuristani Languages Xhosa Pali Zulu Punjabi Dogon Romani Sanskrit Kru Languages Sindhi Kwa Languages Sinhala Akan Urdu Ewe Iranian Languages Yoruba Avestan Kordofanian Languages Bactrian Balochi Chorasmian Nilo- Khotanese Dinka Kurdish Kanuri Ossetic Luo Pahlavi Pashto Persian, Modern North American and Middle American Languages Persian, Old Algonquian and Ritwan Languages Sogdian Cree Tajik Persian Michif Italic Languages Latin Chibchan xiv Subject Classification

Chimakuan Languages Hawaiian Creole English Eskimo-Aleut Hiri Motu Inupiaq Krio West Greenlandic Louisiana Creole Mobilian Jargon Pomoan Languages Palenquero Papamientu Oneida and Creoles, Variation in Keres Russenorsk Sango Misumalpan Tok Pisin Mixe-Zoquean Languages Tsotsi Taal Yanito Creek Na-Dene Languages Sign Languages Navajo Sign Languages of the World Native. American Languages : Native Languages of , Variation in Oto-Mangean Languages Chinantec: Phonology Sino-Tibetan Languages Zapotecan Sinitic Languages Chinese Tibeto-Burman Languages Crow Burmese Lakota Karen Languages Omaha-Ponca Tibetan South American Languages United States of America: Language Situation Andean Languages Uto-Aztecan Languages Aymara Cupeno Quechua Hopi Arawak Languages Tariana Tohono O'odham Wakashan Choco Languages Nuuchahnulth Macro-Je Mapudungan Panoan Languages Central Solomon Languages Manambu Guarani Torricelli Languages Trans Languages Tai Kadai Languages Madang Languages Lao Thai

Pidgins and Creoles Bislama Estonian Cape Verdean Creole Finnish Fanagalo Hungarian Franglais Nenets Gullah Saami Subject Classification xv

Language Isolates and Languages of Disputed Issues in Language Typology and Classification Affiliation Endangered Languages Ainu Basque Morphological Typology Diachronic Morphological Typology Elamite Arabic as an Introflecting Language Etruscan Chinese as an Isolating Language Hurrian Central Siberian Yupik as a Polysynthetic Ket Finnish as an Agglutinating Language Korean Italian as a Fusional Language Nivkh Long-Range Comparison: Methodological Ryukyuan Disputes Sumerian Austric hypothesis Yukaghir Austro-Tai hypothesis Nostratic hypothesis Artificial Languages Esperanto