A Guide to the World's Languages: Volume I, Classification

Author/Contributor(s):	Ruhlen, Merritt
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	06/01/1987
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

This is the first of three pathbreaking volumes that will constitute a wide-ranging analytical guide to the world's approximately 5,000 languages. The volumes are written for both linguists and general readers, and this first volume in particular assumes no background in linguistics. A postscript prepared for this paperback edition takes research data to 1990. The book is illustrated with 21 maps.