Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Indo-European Languages -- 2 Germanic Languages -- 3 English -- 4 German -- 5 Dutch -- 6 Danish, Norwegian and Swedish -- 7 Latin and the Italic Languages -- 8 Romance Languages -- 9 French -- 10 Spanish -- 11 Portuguese -- 12 Italian -- 13 Romanian -- 14 Slavonic Languages -- 15 Russian -- 16 Polish -- 17 Czech and Slovak -- 18 Serbo-Croat: Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian -- 19 Greek -- 20 Indo-Aryan Languages -- 21 Sanskrit -- 22 Hindi-Urdu -- 23 Bengali -- 24 Iranian Languages -- 25 Persian -- 26 Pashto -- 27 Uralic Languages -- 28 Hungarian -- 29 Finnish -- 30 Turkish and the Turkic Languages -- 31 Afroasiatic Languages -- 32 Semitic Languages -- 33 Arabic -- 34 Hebrew -- 35 Amharic -- 36 Hausa and the Chadic Languages -- 37 Tamil and the Dravidian Languages -- 38 Tai Languages -- 39 Thai -- 40 Vietnamese -- 41 The Sino-Tibetan Languages -- 42 Chinese -- 43 Burmese -- 44 Japanese -- 45 Korean -- 46 Austronesian Languages -- 47 Malay-Indonesian -- 48 Javanese -- 49 Tagalog -- 50 Niger-Kordofanian (Niger-Congo) Languages -- 51 Yoruba -- 52 Swahili and the Bantu Languages -- Language Index