Languages: Asia
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Teach Yourself Tagalog. Revised edition. Paperback
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  • Teach Yourself Tagalog. Revised edition. Paperback
  • Cora Castle
  • 384 pages, with 60 illustrations, glossary, index. 2004. Intended to supply the beginner with a well-selected stock of words, this book includes lessons on how to speak, understand, read and write Tagalog. The 20 units are graded in complexity and arranged thematically. Each contains a dialogue, vocabulary list, exercises and cultural tips.

Anthony: The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Cloth
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  • Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Cloth
  • David W. Anthony
  • 566 pages. 3 halftones, 86 line illustrations, 16 tables, 25 maps. 2007. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries, the source of the Indo-European languages and English, and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past...

Anthony: The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Paperback
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  • Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Paperback
  • David W. Anthony
  • 566 pages. 3 halftones, 86 line illustrations, 16 tables, 25 maps. 2010.
  • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries, the source of the Indo-European languages and English, and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past...
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Comrie: The Major Languages of East and South-East Asia. Paperback
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  • Major Languages of East and South-East Asia. Paperback
  • Edited by Bernard Comrie 
  • x11, 234 pages, with linguistic maps and diagrams. 1990. Based on Bernard Comrie's much praised The World's Major Languages, this is the first guide in paperback to an important language family. The areas covered include Chinese, Japanese and Sino-Tibetan languages.

Goldstein: The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. Cloth
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  • New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. Cloth
  • Melvyn C. Goldstein, editor. Shelling, T.N. and Surkhang, J.T., assistent editors
  • 1214 pages. 2001. This dictionary contains more than 80,000 lexical items used in political, social, economic, literary, and scientific discourse including words that have come into use since Tibet was incorporated into the People's Republic of China in 1951

Lonely Planet Central Asia: Languages of the Silk Road.
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  • Lonely Planet Central Asia: Languages of the Silk Road
  • Sally Steward
  • 240 pages. 2005. Travel the Silk Road with essential words and phrases for getting around and connecting with the people you meet, from Western Xinjian to the Karakoram Highway. A comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases

Lonely Planet Vietnamese Phrasebook. Third edition
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  • Lonely Planet Vietnamese Phrasebook. Third edition
  • Xuan Thu Nguyen
  • 288 pages. 2000. Featuring extensive vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation sections, this text includes script throughout for both Hindi and Urdu, allows the user to point to words and phrases. Conversation topics together with essential language are included, as are cultural tips and information

Malayan Othman, Atmosumarto: Colloquial Malay: A Complete Language Course. Book
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  • Colloquial Malay: A Complete Language Course. Book
  • by Zaharah Othman, Sutanto Atmosumarto
  • 306 pages. 1995. The course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Malay. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Mallory, Adams: The Oxford Introduction to Proto-indo-european and the Proto-indo-european World. Paperback
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  • Oxford Introduction to Proto-indo-european and the Proto-indo-european World. Paperback
  • by J. P. Mallory and D. Q. Adams
  • xxiv, 731 pages. 2006. This book introduces Proto-Indo-European and explores what the language reveals about the people who spoke it.

Webster: The Cambridge Introduction to Biblical Hebrew: Textbook and CD-ROM. Paperback
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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Biblical Hebrew: Textbook and CD-ROM, Including Workbook, Answer Key, Paradigms and the Interactive Program TekScroll.
  • Brian L. Webster 2009
  • 380 pages, illustrations, 279 x 215 mm
  • The Cambridge Introduction to Biblical Hebrew is designed for anyone studying biblical Hebrew for the first time. It is well suited for students enrolled in introductory-level courses as well as clergy and laity engaged in self-study. The accompanying CD (suitable for Mac and PC) includes the workbook, answers, paradigms, and the interactive program TekScroll. TekScroll greatly facilitates learning through grammar illustrations with moving graphics, interactive parsing programs, translation practice items, and a vocabulary program. The grammar illustrations demonstrate key grammatical points. The parsing programs provide feedback, hints, and corrections.
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    McGlynn, Kumar: Illuminations. The Writing Traditions of Indonesia. Featuring Manuscripts from The National Library of Indonesia. Cloth
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    • Illuminations. The Writing Traditions of Indonesia. Cloth. Ca. 25x33 cm
    • by Ann Kumar and John McGlynn
    • 320 pages, over 380 color-reproductions. 1996. This text features manuscripts from the collection of the National Library of Indonesia and other major world collections. It discusses in detail not only the physical materials of Indonesian manuscripts but the literary forms that the manuscripts recorded and preserved

    Ramat: The Indo-European Languages. Paperback
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    • Indo-European Languages. Paperback
    • editor: Paolo Ramat. Introduction by Anna Giacalone Ramat
    • 528 pages, 16 illustrations, 67 tables. 2006

    Watkins: The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. Second Edition. Paperback
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    • American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. Second Edition. Paperback
    • Calvert Watkins
    • 192 pages. 2000. Fully revised and updated. More than 13,000 words are traced to their origins in Proto-Indo-European, the prehistoric ancestor of English that was spoken before the advent of writing.

    Woodard: The Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas. Paperback
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    • Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas. Paperback
    • Edited by Roger D. Woodard
    • 2008. 296 pages, 1 map 16 tables. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context.
    • Chapters on Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Old Tamil, Old Persian, Avestan, Pahlavi, Ancient Chinese, Mayan, Epi-Olmec

    Woodard: The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor. Paperback
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    • Ancient Languages of Asia Minor. Paperback
    • Edited by Roger D. Woodard
    • 176 pages, 1 map, 16 tables. 2008. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context.

    Yakup: The Turfan Dialect of Uyghur. Gebunden
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    • Turfan Dialect of Uyghur. Gebunden. 24x17cm
    • Abdurishid Yakup
    • xvi, 488 Seiten. 2005. This volume presents a synchronic description of the phonology, morphology and lexicon of a local variety of modern Uyghur, which is mainly spoken in Turfan, one of the famous ancient cultural centres in the Silk Road...