The World's major languages

Introduction

Indo-European languages

Germanic languages

English

German

Dutch

Danish, Norwegian and Swedish

Latin and the Italic languages

Romance languages

French

Spanish

Portuguese

Italian

Romanian

Slavonic languages

Russian

Polish

Czech and Slovak

Serbo-Croat : Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian

Greek

Indo-Aryan languages

Sanskrit

Hindi-Urdu

Bengali

Iranian languages

Persian

Pashto

Uralic languages

Hungarian

Finnish

Turkish and the Turkic languages

Afroasiatic languages

Semitic languages

Arabic

Hebrew

Amharic

Hausa and the Chadic languages

Tamil and the Dravidian languages

Tai languages

Thai

Vietnamese

The Sino-Tibetan languages

Chinese

Burmese

Japanese

Korean

Austronesian languages

Malay-Indonesian

Javanese

Tagalog

Niger-Kordofanian (Niger-Congo) languages

Yoruba

Swahili and the Bantu languages.

Introduction / Bernard Comrie 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 / Martin Harris 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 / Greville Corbett Greek / Brian D. Joseph Indo-Aryan languages / George Cardona Sanskrit / George Cardona Hindi-Urdu / Yamuna Kachru Bengali / M.H. Klaiman Iranian languages / J.R. Payne 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

Arabic / Alan S. Kaye

Hebrew / Robert Hetzron

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 Nguyẽ̂n

Sino-Tibetan languages / Scott Delancey

Chinese / Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson

Burmese / Julian K. Wheatley

Japanese / Masayoshi Shibatani

Korean / Nam-Kil Kim

Austronesian languages / Ross Clark

Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian) / D.J. Prentice

Tagalog / Paul Schachter

Niger-Kordofanian languages / Douglas Pulleyblank

Yoruba / Douglas Pulleyblank

Swahili and the Bantu languages / Benji Wald.