Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 219 p. Highlighting stylistic and rhetorical characteristics, this fully illustrated book explores the written form of Mandarin Chinese in a range of everyday settings. Taking examples from Chinese public writing across a variety of textual genres, such as signs, banners and advertisements, it prepares students for navigating 'real world'...
Советская Энциклопедия, 1965. — Книга 1 (А-К) 503 с. — Книга 2 (Л-Я) 475 с. Около 40 000 слов. «Киргизско-русский словарь» выдающегося тюрколога-лексикографа, действительного члена АН Киргизской ССР, заслуженного деятеля науки Киргизской ССР, члена-корреспондента АН Узбекской ССР, доктора филологических наук, профессора Юдахина Константина Кузьмича по праву считается одним из...
Москва. Наука-Восточная литература, 2015. — 410 с. Учебник ориентирован на студентов, уже владеющих основами арабского языка и изучающих этот язык как основной в пределах академического уровня «Бакалавриат» на 2-м и 3-м годах обучения. Учебник создавался в рамках образовательных стандартов нового поколения и впервые в российской учебной литературе охватывает в столь полном...
Lincom Europa, 2000. — 65 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 301). Oneida is an endangered language of the Iroquoian family of northeastern North America. Among its more notable structural features are: its relatively small phonemic inventory lacking in labials; its use of whispered syllables; the complexity of the verbal morphology; the dominance of verbal structures over...
Barron's Educational Series, 1996. — 401 p. This volume presents more than 2,000 idiomatic words and expressions spelled phonetically and followed by the Japanese characters and the English translation.
Hippocrene Books, 1993. — 388 p. — (Hippocrene Concise Dictionary). This 2-way Armenian-English dictionary includes over 9,000 entries for the Eastern Armenian dialect. Phonetic pronunciation is included for both English and Armenian entries.
Sema Institute, 2007. — 431 p. This brief guide was prepared for those inquiring about how to enter into Hieroglyphic studies on their own at home or in study groups. First of all you should know that there are a few institutions around the world which teach how to read the Hieroglyphic text but due to the nature of the study there are perhaps only a handful of people who can...
Checkmark Books, 2000. — 240 p. — (Cultural Atlas Series). This is the second edition of one of the finest summations of ancient Egyptian civilization ever written for the general reader. Not only is this an exellent introduction to many aspects of Egypt, it is a visual delight. The maps, especially, configure in the reader's mind spacial relationships and their cultural...
Institut royal de la culture amazighe, 2013. — 784 p. — (Publications de l'Institut royal de la culture amazighe: Série lexiques 11). Le dictionnaire que vous avez entre les mains renferme un lexique appartenant au parler amazighe en usage a Figuig et ses regions (Sud-est marocain et Sud-ouest algerien).
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 648 p. The English Language is an essential survey of the development of the language from its Indo-European past to the present day. Now in a third edition, this text offers enhanced discussion of the socio-historical and cultural contexts of the English language, new approaches to the history of English, and an anthology of specimen texts from...
Eliphi, 2019. — 1200 p. Cette grammaire de référence donne du français médiéval une vision panoramique rendant compte de sa diversité géographique et stylistique. Elle s'appuye sur un large corpus de textes littéraires et documentaires desquels sont extraits de très nombreux exemples intégralement traduits. La GFM repose sur les recherches les plus récentes et remplace ainsi la...
Lengua-e, 2013. — 197 p. Tienes entre tus manos un libro que te va a ayudar a lograr el nivel de corrección en el uso de la tilde que se espera de una persona adulta y con formación. Si alguna vez un acento te ha hecho dudar antes de enviar un correo, entregar un documento a un cliente o pulsar el botón de publicar en tu blog, los ejercicios y explicaciones que encontrarás a...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 394 p. An invaluable reference book for learners who need to master this notoriously difficult aspect of the English language. The Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs provides clear and simple explanations of 6,000 phrasal verbs current in British, American and Australian English today, along with thousands of example...
Oxford University Press, 1954. — 611 p. — (Brown Egyptological studies 1). Ricardo Augusto Caminos (1916-1992) is an Egyptologist of Argentine descent with degrees from the Universities of Buenos Aires, Oxford and Chicago. He has been involved in a number of excavations, his teaching career he realised at Brown Univerity(Rhode Island). He ended his life in London as a member of...
Helmut Buske Verlag, 2010. — 164 S. Konzeption Das komplexe Thema der georgischen Verben wird hier anhand von Verbtabellen und Verbparadigmen anschaulich dargestellt. Ausgehend von alphabetisch sortierten deutschen Verben werden 800 georgische Verben wie folgt präsentiert: Dem deutschen Verb wird das georgische Verbalnomen gegenübergestellt. Sodann folgen drei Spalten mit den...
Brepols, 1998. — 272 p. — (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum). This is the first of a multi-volume work planned to cover the vocabulary of genuine Manichaean texts recovered from Egypt, North Africa and Central Asia, as well as those citations of Manichaen texts found in the Church Fathers and in Islamic writers which are generally regarded by scholars as authentic. The first of the...
Cambridge University Press, 1975. — 584 p. The first comprehensive study in over 100 years, cataloging the issues of each coiner in the period 280-31 B. C. and describing and dating them as accurately as the evidence permits.
Leo S. Olschki, 1991. — 172 p. — (Pocket library of "studies" in art 23). Fra le lingue antiche attestate frammentariamente l'etrusco, coni suoi quasi 8.000 testi conservati, fornisce un corpus rilevante, anche se fortemente condizionato quanto a contenuti dalla destinazione prevalentemente funeraria delle iscrizioni che possediamo. Si tratta pertanto di una lingua che puo...
2nd Edition — Yale University Press, 1976. — 532 p. — (Yale Language Series). In this parallel character version of Beginning Chinese, dialogues, pronunciation drills, sentence-building exercises, substitution drills and memorization exercises correspond to the same lessons Beginning Chinese offers in English and in pinyin romanization of Mandarin. This character version of...
Lonely Planet, 1996. — 223 p. Make your trip to the Ukraine more rewarding by speaking the language. Handy, everyday phrases ensure you will be able to order a meal (and know what you're getting), buy just what you are looking for, book your accommodation, and mix with the locals. Includes detailed grammar and pronunciation guides.
Giunti, 2023. — 513 p. Questo dizionario tascabile vuole offrire in forma sintetica, ma accurata, la traduzione delle parole oggi più usate nelle lingue russa e italiana. In entrambe le sezioni (russo-italiano e italiano-russo) viene fornito un breve compendio di regole fonetiche e grammaticali. Nella scelta dei vocaboli da tradurre è stato dato spazio anche a quelli in ambito...
Zondervan Academic , 2011. — 1584 p. A visually stimulating journey for anyone interested in learning more about the world of the Bible. The Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary offers a wealth of insight into the historical, chronological, archaeological, geographical, social, theological, and biographical aspects of the Bible. Through the articles, sidebars, charts, maps,...
Hippocrene Books, 1993. — 620 p. — (Hippocrene Standard Dictionary). Welsh, the language of Wales, is a member of the Italo-Celtic branch of the Indo-European family. The past twenty years have seen great developments in the Welsh language, which are captured in this completely modern and comprehensive dictionary.
E.J. Brill, 1968. — 294 S. — (Handbuch der Orientalistik 1.5.3). I. Die mandjurische Literatur (W. Fuchs) II. Tungusische Volksdichtung (Ivan A. Lopatin) III. Die tungusischen Sprachen (Karl H. Menges) Das Ewenki Das Lamutische Die Sprache der Udihe Die Sprache der Nānaj (Goldi) Die Sprache der Ǯürčen IV. La langue mandjoue (Denis Sinor)
Dover Publications, 1978. — 226 p. In this study of the hieroglyphs in 3 surviving Maya codices, the author has tabulated all character variants, worked out meanings, and has interrelated these meanings with Maya culture. Day, month, numerals, colors, face signs, quasi-facial forms, animal figures, pictographic objects, eclipse, and more. About 3,000 symbols covered, all...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014. — 241 p. — (Göttinger Orientforschungen. Iranica 12). — ISBN 978-3-447-10300-8. Bactrian, the only Iranian language written in the Greek alphabet, was spoken in ancient Bactria in northern Afghanistan. It is an intermediary Middle Iranian language, possessing the characters of both Eastern and Western Iranian groups, and thus playing a very...
Phaidon Press, 1999. — 320 p. The Most Serene Republic of Venice was the most extraordinary and the longest surviving of the European city states. Having emerged in the early Middle Ages on the margins of an Adriatic lagoon, her glory represents man's collective genius for building triumphant order out of what was once a marshy, reed-choked wilderness. Fortuitously positioned,...
Prestel, 2009. — 221 p. A renowned scholar of Islamic art, history and culture, Oleg Grabar introduces in this book a wide range of illuminated manuscript masterpieces from the eighth to the seventeenth century. The heroes of grand epics such as Alexander the Great are found side-by-side with mythical monarchs, sultans, and even monsters. Illuminated manuscripts of the Koran,...
Hippocrene Books, 1998. — 180 p. — (Beginner's Series). Beginner's Welsh offers a fresh approach for those who wish to learn Welsh, as students or travelers. The book includes sections on various aspects of Welsh history and Welsh life, a useful pronunciation guide, common phrases, seventeen language situations, and a Welsh-English/ English-Welsh vocabulary. Practical and...
University of Hawaii Press, 2011. — 426 p. — (Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication 39). Spoken on Mavea Island by approximately 32 people, Mavea is an endangered Oceanic language of Vanuatu. This work provides grammatical descriptions of this hitherto undescribed language. Fourteen chapters, containing more than 1,400 examples, cover topics in the phonology and morphosyntax...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. — 611 S. — (Äthiopistische Forschungen 88). Das Wörterbuch enthält ca. 10.000 Lexeme und umfasst den gebräuchlichsten Wortschatz des Tigrinischen, der Nationalsprache Eritreas und einer der Arbeitssprachen Äthiopiens. Es beinhaltet Beispiele aus Originalquellen mit deutscher und englischer Übersetzung, darunter Wortverbindungen, Redewendungen,...
Hippocrene Books, 1993. — 752 p. — (Hippocrene Standard Dictionary). This comprehensive dictionary defines over 30,000 words and idioms in 22,500 entries. Hints on pronunciation and transliteration of Persian are clearly detailed. Modern Persian is spoken by more than 30 million people in Iran and 5 million people in Afghanistan. In Iran, the language is referred to as Farsi,...
Logogram, 2006. — 338 p With 6,400 entries, this is the most complete available lexicon of ancient Sumerian vocabulary. This published version adds over 2,600 new entries, and corrects or expands many of the previous entries. Also, following the express wish of a majority of online lexicon users, it has merged together and sorted the logogram words and the compound words into...
Philipp von Zabern Verlag, 2000. — 1753 S. — (Hannig‐Lexica 3). Dieses ägyptisch-deutsche Wörterbuch enthält die bislang umfangreichste Sammlung altägyptischer Wörter aus hieroglyphischen und hieratischen Texten für die Zeit des Alten bis Neuen Reiches (ca. 2800-950 v. Chr.), jenen Hauptepochen der ägyptischen Kultur. Das reichhaltige Vokabular dieser Zeit wird in...
Oxford University Press 2005. — 695 p. The World Atlas of Language Structures displays the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part...
The University of Chicago Press, 1960. — 172 p. In these pages an effort has been made to analyze certain formal properties of language change and to make explicit some of the procedures which lead to the reconstruction of change and thus to the recovery of lost language structures. This is done by developing from the fundamental notions of synchronic linguistics the framework...
Eisenbrauns, 2008. — 490 p. — (Languages of the Ancient Near East 1.1). Hoffner and Melchert’s long-awaited work is sure to become both the standard reference grammar and the main teaching tool for the Hittite language. The first volume includes a thorough description of Hittite grammar, grounded in an abundance of textual examples. Moreover, the authors take into account a...
3. Auflage — Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2011. — 196 S. — (Kauderwelsch 197). Viele Deutsche und Deutschschweizer gehen den Sommer über in Graubünden zur Alp, oft auch im kleinen rätoromanischen Sprachgebiet, und begegnen so dieser eigenständigen, mit dem Italienischen verwandten Sprache, auf die viele Bauern stolz sind: nies bi lungatg, „unsere schöne Sprache“. Auch bei...
Yale University Press, 1993. — 352 p. Professor Conant's detailed studies of Santiago de Compostela and of the abbey church at Cluny fit him for this account of building in the period of the round arch which preceeded Gothic. In this volume he shows how, at the instigation of the monasteries during the little renaissance of Charlemagne, Roman methods of construction were...
Helmut Buske, 2008. — 285 S. Ungarischlernende und -lehrende können sich mit dieser Grammatik umfassend und kontrastiv zum Deutschen über die Systematik bzw. über die Konstruktionsprinzipien der ungarischen Sprache informieren und ihre Kenntnisse gezielt vertiefen und erweitern. Die inhaltliche Darstellung stützt sich sowohl auf die Tradition der klassischen ungarischen...
Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche, Istituto per gli Studi Micenei ed Egeo-anatolici, 1998. — 114 p. — (Documenta Asiana 4). The Elamite language (c. 3000 BCE to 400 BCE) is the now-extinct language spoken by Elamites, who inhabited the regions of Khūzistān and Fārs in Southern Iran. Elamite was an official language of the Persian Empire from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE....
Phaidon Press, 2015. — 227 p. An accessible, beautifully designed introduction to Celtic art, written by the world expert, this book offers a carefully chosen sequence of 250 masterpieces ranging from the fifth century BC to the eighth century AD. The great variety and full range of Celtic artistic production is represented – from stone sculptures, terracotta vases and iron...
Mouton, 1974. — 293 p. — (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica 225). The Shuswap language (/ˈʃuːʃwɑːp/; Shuswap: Secwepemctsín [ʃəxʷəpəməxˈtʃin]) is a northern Interior Salish language traditionally spoken by the Shuswap people (Shuswap: Secwépemc [ʃəˈxʷɛpəməx]) of British Columbia. An endangered language, Shuswap is spoken mainly in the Central and Southern Interior of British...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. — 161 S. Angelika Landmanns Kurzgrammatik erläutert die Grundlagen der Sprache der Jakuten, die sich selbst als „Sacha“ bezeichnen, knapp, übersichtlich und leicht verständlich. Die systematisch nach grammatischen Kategorien gegliederten Inhalte werden anhand von Tabellen und Beispielsätzen aus der Alltagssprache veranschaulicht. Damit richtet...
Harry N. Abrams, 1960. — 292 p. The vagaries of fashion throughout the ages are a source of endless interest, not only as an indication of man's infinite capacity for invention but because of the relationship of costume to shifting cultural patterns. James Laver, an unrivaled authority in the field, presents in this book the underlying motives of fashion as well as a survey of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. — 397 p. For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history and culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, archaeologists, photographers, and artists recorded the Maya carvings that remained, often by transporting box cameras and plaster casts through the jungle on muleback. The New Catalog of...
Hippocrene Books, 2016. — 244 p. Lingala (a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo family) is spoken by approximately 10 million people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and Angola. It originated in the Equatorial Region of the DRC, but as the official language of the Army, it became the major language of the...
Hippocrene Books, 2001. — 164 p. Hippocrene's British-American/American-British Dictionary and Phrasebook offers the perfect solution to the language dilemma with our sister country across the ocean. This easy-to-use, pocket-size guide provides both simple definitions as well as words connected with specific driving, money and size conversion charts, restaurants and pubs,...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995. — 244 p. — (Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica 42). Karl H. Menges wrote The Turkic Languages and Peoples: An Introduction to Turkic Studies in 1962, drawing on his long experience in the field. It was finally published in 1968 and long served as the only substantial overview of the Turkic languages. A reprint appeared in 1995, with a...