This Book Describes The Most Interesting Features Of Over 50 Of The World's Major Languages And Language Groups. Indo-european Languages / Philip Baldi -- Germanic Languages / John A. Hawkins -- English / Edward Finegan -- German / John A. Hawkins -- Dutch / Jan G. Kooij -- Danish, Norwegian And Swedish / Einar Haugen -- Latin And The Italic Languages / R.g.g. Coleman -- Romance Languages / John N. Green -- French / Linda R. Waugh, Monique Monville-burston -- Spanish / John N. Green -- Portuguese / Stephen Parkinson -- Italian / Nigel Vincent -- Rumanian / Graham Mallinson -- Slavonic Languages / Bernard Comrie -- Russian / Bernard Comrie -- Polish / Gerald Stone -- Czech And Slovak / David Short -- Serbo-croat: Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian / Greville Corbett, Wayles Browne -- Greek / Brian D. Joseph -- Indo-aryan Languages / George Cardona, Silvia Luraghi -- Sanskrit / George Cardona, Silvia Luraghi -- Hindi-urdu / Yamuna Kachru -- Bengali / M.h. Klaiman -- Iranian Languages / J.r. Payne, Behrooz Mahmoodi-bakhtiari -- Persian / Gernot L. Windfuhr -- Pashto / D.n. Mackenzie -- Uralic Languages / Robert Austerlitz -- Hungarian / Daniel Abondolo -- Finnish / Michael Branch -- Turkish And The Turkic Languages / Jaklin Kornfilt -- Afroasiatic Languages / Robert Hetzron -- Semitic Languages / Robert Hetzron, Alan S. Kaye -- Arabic / Alan S. Kaye -- Hebrew / Robert Hetzron, Alan S. Kaye -- Amharic / Grover Hudson -- Hausa And The Chadic Languages / Paul Newman -- Tamil And The Dravidian Languages / Sanford B. Steever -- Tai Languages / David Strecker -- Thai / Thomas John Hudak -- Vietnamese / Đình-hoà Nguyễn -- Sino-tibetan Languages / Scott Delancey -- Chinese / Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson -- Burmese / Julian K. Wheatley -- Japanese / Masayoshi Shibatani -- Korean / Nam-kil Kim -- Austronesian Languages / Ross Clark -- Malay-indonesian / Uri Tadmor -- Javanese / Michael P. Oakes -- Tagalog / Paul Schachter, Lawrence A. Reid -- Niger-kordofanian Languages / Douglas Pulleyblank -- Yoruba / Douglas Pulleyblank, Ọlanikẹ Ọla Orie -- Swahili And The Bantu Languages / Benji Wald. Edited By Bernard Comrie. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.