DOCUMENT RESUME ED 044 683 At 002 658 AUTHOR Plass, Pirgit A., Comp.; And Others TITLE A Provisional Survey of Materials for the Study of Neglected Languages. TNSTITUTION Center for Applied Linauistics, Washington, P.C. SPONS AGENCY Office of Education (DHFW), Washington, P.C. PUB DATE 69 MOTE 422p. AVATLABLE FPCM Center for Applied Linguistics, 1717 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. ,Washington, t. C. 20036 PDPS PP!CE EDFS Price M7-$1.75 HC Not Available from EPPS. DFSCRTPTORS *Annotated Bibliographies, *instructional Materials, *Reference Materials, *Surveys, *Uncommonly rrught Languages APSTRACT The present list of basic tools of access for the study of the neglected languages is based on a file of materials collected at the Center for Applied Linguistics in fulfillment of a contract with the Office of Education. '*he survey contains over 20n0 entries representing 192 languages and dialects, arranged according to languages and language groups within the following geographical areas: qestern Europe, Pastern Europe, the Soviet Union, +he Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Pastern Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Americas. The primary emphasis is on materials intended for use by the beginnina adult learner whose native language is English, although materials of interest to the teacher, the specialist and the textbook writer have aso been included. Ttems are arranged under language headings accoraina to Teaching Materials, Readers, Grammars, and Pictionaries. Entries are annotated and contain, whenever possible, the following bibliographical information: author, title, place of publication, publisher, date, pagination, and accompanying tapes and records. (AMM1 I I peN co .0.4. BIRGIT A. BLASS 4.4 DORA E. JOHNSON Co CI WILLIAM W. 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OPTICS OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS REIN REPRODUCED VIACTLY AS NICENE° 0 RO ht ENE PERSON OR 1 p CROAK/AMON ORIGINATING IT POINTS Of VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT N ICES SAMLY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OfFICI Of EDU CATION POSITION OR POLICY " 14).4 . 4 % _. x.1 oo IP aprovigionalt.)rve aterials 4vo I r/ forte stu y.of neglectelanguages ) This work was developed pursuant to a contract between theUnited States Office of Education and the Center for AppliedLinguistics and is published with the permission of the United States Office of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. ftIttoSVON to ALPINVUtt toil COPY, Ilaport/D UAttilIAL Of NtiCNOfiCld ONLY NADIIIINGNANtt0 St 4). tAs.: AND OADAtOLATtOtft OPINATMO Uff0411t AORMatell witM tH1 ut Off let Of tOUtAttOti RAMA NONOOUttiON Os/MIN 114 UK stilt's f400AiD PIN MitS3001 Of tHICO,TDOffT 0Mottl Copyright A 1969 by the Center for Applied Linguistics 1717 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78.11)390 Printed In the United States of America Introduction The present :ist of basic tools of access for the study of the neglected languages is based on a file of materials collected at the Center for Applied Linguistics in fulfillment of a contract with the Office of Education. The survey contains over 2000 entries representing 382 languages and dialects, arranged according to languages and language groups within the following geographical areas: Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Americes. The primary emphasis is on materials intended for use by the begin- ning adult learner 'those native language is English, although materials of interest to the teacher, the specialist and the text- book writer have also been included. In addition to books which are in print and commercially available. the list includes books which are out of print or forthcoming or which have limited acces- sibility, e.g. materials produced by government agencies such as the Defense Language Institute, the Peace Corps, and the Foreign Service Institute. For those languages where there appeared to be no Adequate or recent texts in English, older books, technical studies and books in foreign languages have been entered. Books that have undergone revision are listed only in their most recent edition, and bilingual dictionaries published before 1940 are listed only when they (apparently) constitute the sole or major resource for the language. Pocket dictionaries and mere word lists have ordinarily been excluded. Under each language heading, the items are arranged as follows; Teaching materials (basic, intermediate, and advanced courses; audlo-visual courses; radio recordings; character texts; and introductions to the writing system). Information about inter- mediate and advanced materials is, in general, given only when such materials are members of a series which contains a basic course. Readers (general, literary, history, social science, folklore, newspaper and school readers). Grammars (reference grammars; linguistic pitman); and partial descriptions). Dictionaries (comprehensive, concise and student dictionaries and glossaries). Whenever possible, each entry contains the following bibliographical informttion: author, title, place of publication, publisher, date any parinAtion.Accompanying tapes and records are listed where known. The annotations are intended to be descriptive rather than critical.Abbreviations appearing in brackets after the annotation iv INTRODUCTION identify materials produced under U.S. Government auspices or by the American Council of Learned Societies. Preliminary lists for most of the languages were submitted to con- sultants for review and their recommendations have been on the whole incorporated into the survey. The consultants were: Peter F. Abboud for Arabic, Joseph R. Applegate for Berber and North African lan- guages, Howard I. Aronson for Slavic languages, Kenneth G. Chapman for Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, Gerson D. Cohen for Hebrew, S6ren C. Egerod for Chinese other than Mandarin, George W. Grace for Malayo-Polynesian, Edgar A. Gregersen for African languages, Eric P. Hamp for Albanian, Rumanian and Greek, Gerald B. Kelley for Hindi- Urdu, Walter Lagerwey for Dutch, John Lotz for Hungarian, Yakov Malkiel for Portuguese and Catalan, Samuel E. Martin for Korean and Japanese, Norman A. McQttown for American Indian languages, Alan R. McNaughton for Uralic and Altaic, Nicholas N. Poppe for Mongolian, Paul H. Schach for Icelandic, Franklin C. Southworth for Indian other than Hindi, William A. Stewart for Afrikaans and Creoles, William E. Welmers for West African, James J. Wrenn for Mandarin Chinese, and Ehson Yar-Shater for Middle East languages. As a preliminary to the survey, numerous bibliographies, such as Study Aids for Critical Languages by Frank A. Rice, the MLA Selec- tive List of Materials, the Bibliography of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, the Linguistic Bibliography for the Years 1939-1965, "The Peace Corps and the Development of Foreign Language Instructional Materials: An Annotated Bibliography" by Judith Brown, and many others, were consulted. The project was under the direction of Dr. William Nemser, Director of the Language Program at the Center for Applied Linguistics. In the preparation of this survey, we have enjoyed the generous assistance and cooperation of our colleagues at the Center, in particular the staff of the Publications Section, the Library, and the ERIC Clearing- house for Linguistics. Mrs. Allene Grognet (Associate Director of the Publications Section) assisted the compilers throughout the project, and Mrs. Kathleen Lewis (Program Associate in the Director's Office) provided invaluable help with many phases of the work.We are also grateful to the numerous scholars who provided us with examination copies of their books. Thanks are also due to the Library of Con- gress, which made available to us their bilingual dictionary files; the Foreign Service Institute, which allowed us access to its library; and the Intensive Language Center at Indiana University, which pro- vided us with mail' a their materials for examination.We are especially grateful to Mrs. Freda Ahearn for typing the manuscript for publication and to Mrs. Virginia Jarmack and Mrs. Elizabeth Shirai for typing the earlier drafts of the manuscript. In addition, Mrs. Shirai provided administrative an secretarial assistance throughout the course of the project. B.A. B. D.E.J. .W.G. Washington, D.C. December 1969 Contents INTRODUCTION tit ABBREVIATIONS vii I. WESTERN EUROPE 1 Scandinavian 1 West Germanic 14 Keltic 19 Basque 22 Western Romance 22 Uralic 32 2. EUROPEAN RASED PIDGINS AND CREOLES 33 English 33 French 38 Portuguese 40 Spanish 40 3. EASTERN EUROPE 42 Ugric 42 Salto- Finnic 43 Eastern Romance 51 Albanian 52 Hellenic 54 West Slavic 57 South Slavic 64 4. SOVIET UNION 71 East Slavic 71 Baltic 73 Eastern Uralic 76 Central Asian Turkic 79 Caucasic 85 5. MIDDLE FAST 87 Turkic 87 Iranian 92 Armenian 104 Seoitic 107 Berber 161 6. SOUTH ASIA 146 IndoAryan 146 Dravidian 176 Minor Languages of India 185 vi CONTENTS 7. SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC 188 Burma (and Yunnan) 188 Thailand, Laos and Cambodia 194 Vietnam 202 Malayo-Polynesian (other than Malagasy) 209 New Guinea 248 8. EASTERN ASIA 251 Chinese 251 Japanese 276 Korean 290 Mongolian 294 Tibetan 300 9. SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 303 West Germanic 303 Ethiopia and Somalia 306 West Africa 312 Bantu 344 Interior Africa 374 Malayo-Polynesian 381 10. AMERINDIAN 383 INDEX 405 Abbreviations ACLS American Council of Learned Societies, New York, New Yolk. AID Agency for international