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 , then with translation to English then a small introductory  text for area is spoken ,  speakers , special  letters (in case Latin or Cyrillic is used ) and words  borrowed into English  (as for example amuk is borrowed  from Malay ). More  than  200 languages are referred with also some more exotic , as eg for Europe  Frisian , Faroese , Lappish as mentioned  Coptic and Aramaic  are analyzed for  M East , or Burushaski Miao YI Sibo for Asia  etc

Third part analyses most significant languages by country . There are many cases languages not referred in the  second part to be noticed there .


IN result this book is a must have for a script and language student (better say linguist) though more introductory









Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Gumus a tv series with side effects !

-
Image
Gumus a tv series with side effects ! Aug 6, '11 10:54 PM for everyone Category: Movies Genre: Drama Gumus (Nur) a series with strong side effects !! Gumus stands for silver in Turkish , but more accurate as the “silver rays of the moon” as someone told me . As yuo may understand I mean for a Turkish TV series which has been aired in the greek TV which I can describe best as a telenovela due to similarity with the maxican TV soap operas Also someone describes with the same name : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441924/usercomments Before I enter into the subject let me first tell you about the facts coming from the greek TVs: At first this series is 100 episodes of 1,5 hrs each . And played in the Tuekry for 3 seasons 2005- 2007 but I have no data onhow much it gained audience . This series has been aired first on prime time (2100LT )in the Macedonia TV a nationwide TV channel based in Thessalonica and for unknown reasons they suspended it and played in the sister chann
Read more

Baraem and commentary on .... (read inside !)

-
Image
BARAEM Baraem is a children TV channel more particularly for preschool children with Arabic headquarters . IN a short check today I found that this channel is indeed part of al Jazeera and is aired via the 13E Hotbird satellite We used this TVchannel in order to get rid from the possibly ‘destructive’ influence of Winx (if any ) that could be caused with the ‘magics and spells’ and now this is our daughter’s favorite  TV channel (many times she asks for Baraem ) with slightly less interest in Star the nationwide TV channel and she watches it mostly on local afternoons 8 pm ie before she goes to night sleep . This is not exactly the reason to write this article but rather  for the reason you will see at near he end of it So please be patient ! IN this channel you will not watch Sponge Bob or Dora the explorer (though the latter is quite affiliated ) but are many other series possibly more interesting than them . . Since I do nt know Arabic (I am only intending to learn the
Read more

SINPFEMO A better signal tech analysis by using F/TDM

-
Image
SINPFEMO ------------- A better signal tech analysis by using F/TDM analysis drawings in specialized reports (version blogger ) Considering that SINPFEMO does not 100 % cover the truth from listeners point of view in regards to signal readability QRM and fading I have used for more than 4 years derived from more specialized monitoring equipment such as Hewlett Packard , Rohde & Shwartz etc I think however that both terms shown below are very easy to understand however there is still a little analysis behind them on how i used them so far. #1. Frequency domain analysis ...................#1b. About computer DSP analysis on FDM #2. Time domain analysis ( fading analysis) ...................#2a.Cases of 'Short' time fading found on SW: ...................#2b.Cases of long term fadings #3. More advanced way for domain analysis #4 Using R75 and specialized programs New.gif (908 bytes) ....................#4a Smart Icom 32 and R75 ....................#4
Read more