The World's Major Languages.

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Cover Title Copyright Contents List of Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Indo-European Languages 2 Germanic Languages 3 English 4 German 5 Dutch 6 Danish, Norwegian and Swedish 7 Latin and the Italic Languages 8 Romance Languages 9 French 10 Spanish 11 Portuguese 12 Italian 13 Romanian 14 Slavonic Languages 15 Russian 16 Polish 17 Czech and Slovak 18 Serbo-Croat: Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian 19 Greek 20 Indo-Aryan Languages 21 Sanskrit 22 Hindi-Urdu 23 Bengali 24 Iranian Languages 25 Persian 26 Pashto 27 Uralic Languages 28 Hungarian 29 Finnish 30 Turkish and the Turkic Languages 31 Afroasiatic Languages 32 Semitic Languages 33 Arabic 34 Hebrew 35 Amharic 36 Hausa and the Chadic Languages 37 Tamil and the Dravidian Languages 38 Tai Languages 39 Thai 40 Vietnamese 41 The Sino-Tibetan Languages 42 Chinese 43 Burmese 44 Japanese 45 Korean 46 Austronesian Languages 47 Malay-Indonesian 48 Javanese 49 Tagalog 50 Niger-Kordofanian (Niger-Congo) Languages 51 Yoruba 52 Swahili and the Bantu Languages Language Index