The volume reveals the impact Arabic has had on African languages far beyond the area of its direct influence.

The book of Luelen appears to have been by far the fullest such manuscript completed by any Ponapean up to the time of Luelen's death: the author himself seems to have seen it as a comprehensive account of Ponape from its creation to the ...

UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger tries to raise awareness on language endangerment. This third edition has been completely revised and expanded to include new series of maps and new points of view.

The volume presents Avenzoar's Regimen of Health (from twelfth-century Spain) in its medieval Latin and Hebrew translations from Arabic, together with an English version, and demonstrates in detail how the translation team--one Jew, one ...

Three separate chapters on the languages of the Americas: North America, Meso-America and South America, with key historical maps for America fully updated The only language atlas of this scope available Internationally renowned chapter ...