Languages of the world by Kenneth Katzner
Languages of the world This is possibly my most useful language book of early 80s Beware that my interest in languages started from ca 6 years of age when I successfully decoded Japanese language characters from lyrics mentioned in the documentation of several vinyl records. Later I have used small methods of other languages from our region (Serban , Turkish , Arabic etc ) and next due to my interest in Asian languages i was slightly involved with methods of Chinese Cantonese Hindi (via German ) Punjabi etc This book has been used for very many times so far and still seems as untouched ! Its structure is relatively simple: First part discusses languages by families : Indo-European Uralic Altaic Caucasian Dravidian and so on Second part discusses languages by region individually mainly in 3 parts: foit wirg an example of the language , most times with its native script ...