Atlas of the world's languages
Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction.This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: * up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 * a general linguistic history of each section * an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section * statistical and sociolinguistic information * a large number of new or completely updated maps * further reading and a bibliography for each section * a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languagesPresenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.North America / Victor Golla ... [et al.] -- Latin America : general remarks -- Meso-America / Terrence Kaufman -- South America / Terrence Kaufman with the help of Brent Berlin -- Australasia and the Pacific / Darrell Tryon -- East and South-east Asia / David Bradley ; contributor : Alan Sanders -- Southern Asia : from Iran to Bangladesh / R.E. Asher -- Northern Asia and Eastern Europe / Bernard Comrie ; contributor : Alan Sanders -- Western Europe / J. Lachlan Mackenzie -- The Middle East and North Africa / A.K. Irvine ; contributor : David Appleyard -- Sub-Sharan Africa / Benji Wald
general editors R.E. Asher and Christopher Moseley ; section editors R.E. Asher ... [et al.] ; cartographic editor Giles Darkescol. maps ; 43 cm
