The Linguasphere
Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities
is a 1,000 page volume, covering over 20,000 languages and dialects,
written and compiled for the Linguasphere Observatory by David Dalby.
Selected extracts from the Linguasphere Register can now be downloaded from this page. The purpose is not only to provide a free information-service for visitors to this site, but also to create a forum for the gathering and collation of new and revised data on the world's languages and speech communities.
In addition to the Preface and Synopsis,
the following extracts have been selected from among the one
hundred referential zones [00 to 99] of the Linguasphere Register:
[00] the MANDIC (MANDE) languages
spoken in WEST AFRICA
[10] the TAMAZIC (BERBER) languages spoken in NORTH AFRICA
[12] the SEMITIC languages spoken in NORTH AFRICA and WESTERN ASIA*
[28] NORTH-AUSTRALIAN languages
[31] part: HESPERONESIC - CENTRAL HESPERONESIC languages of
SOUTHEAST ASIA
[49] the DRAVIDIC languages spoken in SOUTH ASIA
[50] the CELTIC languages spoken in NORTHWEST EUROPE*
[51] part: ROMANIC - LES LANGUES ROMANES DE FRANCE
[52] part: GERMANIC:
- ANGLO-CREOLE comprising the wide range of English-based
creoles
- AUSWANDERUNGS-DEUTSCH or 'expatriate' idioms of German
[59] the INDIC (INDO-ARYAN) languages spoken in SOUTH ASIA*
[62 - 66] NORTH-AMERICAN languages from CREE to NAHUATL
[79] part: SINITIC - YUE/CANTONESE
[84] languages of the ANDES ranges,
from Columbia to Bolivia
[99] part: BANTUIC - INNER BANTU
(east and south)
Mandic
languages
Semitic
languages*
Central
Hesperonesic languages
Celtic
languages*
Anglo-Creole
Indic
languages*
Yue
/ Cantonese
Inner
Bantu (east & south)
Tamazic
languages
North-Australian
languages
Dravidic
languages
Les
langues romanes de France
Auswanderungs-Deutsch
North-American
languages
Languages
of the Andes
Preface
to the Linguasphere Register by Roland Breton
Synopsis
of the Linguasphere Register
(page numbers refer to Volume Two of
the Register)
*In respect of the extracts on Semitic, Celtic and Indic languages, the Linguasphere Observatory is particularly grateful for advice and critical comments received from Professor David Appleyard and Dr Bruce Ingham of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London; from Dr Baruch Podolsky of Tel Aviv University; from Professor Emeritus Glyn Jones and Research Professor Colin Williams and their colleagues in the Adran y Gymraeg (Department of Welsh) at Cardiff University of Wales; from Professor Lachman Khubchandani of the Centre for Communication Studies in Pune; from Dr Ganesh Devy and Miss Nima S.Gadhia of the Bhasha Research Centre, Vadodara; from Emeritus Professor Dinesh D.Mahulkar and Dr Pramod Pandey and their colleagues in the Department of Linguistics at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda; and from Emeritus Professor Roland Breton of the University of Paris VIII and the University of Provence at Aix-en-Provence. Any remaining errors and omissions are the sole responsibility of the Linguasphere Observatory.
Any information or comments on the
languages and speech communities covered by each extract will be
gratefully received at:
(by e-mail)
(by post) The Linguasphere Observatory, c/o
Hebron SA34 0XT Wales (UK).
Surftipps:
- Reference about Gif and JPEG
- Many
Encyclopedias and Glossaries, covering various subjects in different
languages.
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