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Languages of the world by Kenneth Katzner

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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 ...