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No other description available.About the AuthorNicholas Awde is a writer and regional consultant based in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Peter Maghashyan is a freelance journalist, analyst, and consultant on regional, political, and economic issues. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619494220Author Nihar GhatakFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Preceptor Language GuidesPublisher Preceptor Language GuidesWeight(grams)...

No other description available.Book InformationISBN 9780781809580Author Aariimaa Baasanjav MarderFormat HardbackPage Count 259Imprint Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S.

There are three types of Japanese script-katakana, hiragana, and kanji. It is possible to read Japanese knowing only a limited number of kanji, but it is not possible with only a limited number of katakana or hiragana-one must know all of them. Let's...

Whereas Volume I of the Busy People series introduces the most basic patterns for constructing simple sentences in Japanese, Volume II aims to provide students with the foundational skills for forming more complex expressions that will enable them to...

Everyone agrees that it is possible to learn to speak Japanese in a reasonable amount of time, but no one has ever said that about reading and writing it. It is widely held that spoken and written Japanese require separate efforts by the student, as if...

This is an innovative and highly effective system for learning and remembering kanji, or Sino-Japanese character. It contains all 2,136 common 'joyo' kanji, and 164 useful non-joyo kanji. They are specially arranged to maximise efficiency of acquisition...

A comprehensive course for teaching Japanese to young adults in English-speaking countries -- from The Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (AJALT), developers of the renowned Japanese for Busy People series. Japanese for Young People is a...

There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Our records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them has multiplied in the last few...

Nahuatl, also known as Aztec or Mexican is the most widely spoken indigenous language in Mexico and Central America. Spoken by the Aztecs centuries ago, 1.5 million people in Mexico and Central America continue to speak it today. This bilingual...

Finding it hard to grasp the Klingon language? Don't worry - this user-friendly guide to Klingon and Klingons teaches newcomers and improvers how to journey safely through Klingon territory.About the AuthorPOCKET BOOKSBook InformationISBN...

With The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary: Revised and Expanded, learners finally have at their fingertips accurate and in-depth information on all the kanji prescribed by the Japanese government. In all, 3,002 characters 772 more than in the first...

Winner of the Swedish National Language Council's Erik Wellander Prize, 2003Swedish: A Comprehensive Grammar is an award-winning complete reference guide to modern Swedish grammar. Systematic and accessible, the volume is organised to promote a thorough...

Offers an introduction to Hawaiian words and phrases, with sections focusing on basic greetings, food and drink, weather, and assorted cultural activities. This dictionary and phrasebook is a useful companion for vacationers and others interested in...

Guarani, also known as Paraguayan Guarani, is an indigenous South American language with over 8 million speakers. It is mostly spoken in Paraguay and Bolivia. With over 7,000 entries, this is a comprehensive bilingual Guarani-English dictionary. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988830018Author Bermuda Word HyplernFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Bermuda WordPublisher Bermuda WordWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931873901Author Kristine K KershulFormat PaperbackPage Count 10Imprint Bilingual Books Inc.,U.S.Publisher Bilingual Books Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 60g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619494640Author Veleslav BielyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Preceptor Language GuidesPublisher Preceptor Language GuidesWeight(grams)...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

The oldest and most extensive written language of Southeast Asia is Old Javanese, or Kawi. It is the oldest language in terms of written records, and the most extensive in the number and variety of its texts. Javanese literature has taken many forms. At...

With an appendix on the numerals by: Emerton, J. A.;Book InformationISBN 9780198154198Author W. B. StevensonFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 194mm * 127mm * 13mm

Sumerian Literary Texts in the Ashmolean MuseumBook InformationISBN 9780198154501Author O. R. GurneyPage Count 122Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 312mm * 237mm * 10mm

The shift to Hebrew as a national language is at the root of the creation of Israel, yet many Jewish former immigrants still use the language of their country of origin. Ultra-orthodox communities retain their own codes, and the use of Arabic remains a...

The nine extensive essays of this volume are by specialists on South Asia whose research focus includes the extremely complicated problematics of the linguistic situation there. It is devoted to the broadly understood problem of defining Hindi as well as...

This book contains a selection of texts in Arabic Languages from the Gulf countries. The preceding study describes the beginnings of the literary movement in the Gulf region and presents the range of problems that appear in the regional literature. In...

In 1914, William M. Nesbit published his dissertation at Columbia University on 30 archival texts from the Third Dynasty of Ur. Now, more than a century later, the remaining tablets in his collection have been recovered and, thanks to the generosity of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941464342Author BazziFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Let in the Light PublishingPublisher Let in the Light Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941464274Author BazziFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Let in the Light PublishingPublisher Let in the Light Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941464366Author Michael J BazziFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Let in the Light PublishingPublisher Let in the Light PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941464267Author Michael J BazziFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Let in the Light PublishingPublisher Let in the Light PublishingWeight(grams)...

Saisiyat is a Formosan language spoken in the north-western part of Taiwan. It is divided into two groups, a northern and a southern group. The Northern group used to speak the Taai dialect (also known as the Northern dialect) and lives in the upper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942544869Author Bonnie Adair-HauckFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)Publisher American...

Designed to be used as a second-year textbook, Conversational Tamil includes 14 conversations in which participants interact in different socio-cultural contexts-both formal and informal. The conversations are presented first in the spoken Tamil version...

Intermediate Tagalog is a pioneering language text that gives students a grasp of the social rules of the language as well as the linguistic rules. Designed for students who have learned the basic skills and mastered a vocabulary of frequently used...

Senft examines the system of classificatory particles - the divisions of the noun lexicon into distinct classes - in Kilivila, the Austronesian language of the Trobrian Islanders of Papua New Guinea.ReviewsSenft's account of classificatory particles is...

Political changes since the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998 have had a significant impact on linguistic and discursive practices in Indonesia. The language policy of the state has become less restrictive than in the past, when Indonesian (Bahasa...

In 2005, a new publisher entered the New Zealand market - the first to specialise in English translations of children's books. The notion of "homegrown translations" was a new departure for a post-colonial book market dominated for several decades by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782807612501Author Thomas SzendeFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint PIE - Peter LangPublisher PIE - Peter LangWeight(grams) 260g

Contains comprehensive definitions, phonetics for both languages, detailed index of geographical names, transliteration guides, and notes on Estonian cuisine.About the AuthorKsana Kyiv and Oleg BenyuchBook InformationISBN 9780870520815Author Ksana...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949805376Author Beatriz FernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Center for Basque StudiesPublisher Center for Basque StudiesWeight(grams)...