Routledge Language Family Series
About the Book Series
Each volume in this series contains an in-depth account of the members of some of the world's most important language families. Written by experts in each language, these accessible accounts provide detailed linguistic analysis and description. The contents are carefully structured to cover the natural system of classification: phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, semantics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics.
Every volume contains extensive bibliographies for each language, a detailed index and tables, and maps and examples from the languages to demonstrate the linguistic features being described. The consistent format allows comparative study, not only between the languages in each volume, but also across all the volumes in the series.
The Tungusic Languages
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander Vovin, José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente, Juha Janhunen
May 06, 2025
The Tungusic Languages is a survey of Tungusic, a language family which is seriously endangered today, but which at the time of its maximum spread was present all over Northeast Asia. This volume offers a systematic succession of separate chapters on all the individual Tungusic languages, as well ...
The Uralic Languages
2nd Edition
Edited
By Daniel Abondolo, Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi
November 29, 2024
The Uralic Languages, second edition, is a reference book which brings together detailed discussions of the historical development and specialized linguistic structures and features of the languages in the Uralic family. The Uralic languages are spoken today in a vast geographical area stretching ...
The Turkic Languages
2nd Edition
Edited
By Lars Johanson, Éva Á. Csató
October 04, 2024
The Turkic languages are spoken today in a vast geographical area stretching from southern Iran to the Arctic Ocean and from the Balkans to the great wall of China. There are currently 20 literary languages in the group, the most important among them being Turkish with over 70 million speakers; ...
The Bantu Languages
2nd Edition
Edited
By Mark Van de Velde, Koen Bostoen, Derek Nurse, G�rd Philippson
August 29, 2022
Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages, comparative studies of their main phonetic, phonological and grammatical characteristics and overview chapters on their history and classification. It is estimated ...
The Dravidian Languages
2nd Edition
Edited
By Sanford B. Steever
August 29, 2022
The Dravidian language family is the world's fourth largest with nearly 250 million speakers across South Asia from Pakistan to Nepal, from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka. This authoritative reference source provides a unique description of the languages, covering their grammatical structure and ...
The Indo-Aryan Languages
1st Edition
Edited
By George Cardona, Danesh Jain
July 01, 2021
The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old ...
The Semitic Languages
2nd Edition
Edited
By John Huehnergard, Na’ama Pat-El
December 18, 2020
The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms.This second edition has been fully revised, with new chapters and a wealth of additional material. New ...
The Khoesan Languages
1st Edition
Edited
By Rainer Vossen
June 30, 2020
The Routledge Language Family series is aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates of linguistics and language, and those with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology and language development. According to a widely accepted hypothesis, the Khoesan languages represent the ...
The Sino-Tibetan Languages
2nd Edition
Edited
By Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla
June 30, 2020
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 decades. Now in its second edition and fully ...
Language Isolates
1st Edition
Edited
By Lyle Campbell
December 12, 2019
Language Isolates explores this fascinating group of languages that surprisingly comprise a third of the world’s languages. Individual chapters written by experts on these languages examine the world's major language isolates by geographic regions, with up-to-date descriptions of many, including ...
The Indo-European Languages
2nd Edition
Edited
By Mate Kapović
December 12, 2019
The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language subgroups within this language family.With over four hundred languages and dialects and almost three billion native speakers, the Indo-European language family is the largest of the recognized ...
The Mayan Languages
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Aissen, Nora England, Roberto Zavala Maldonado
December 12, 2019
The Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated with the Classic Mayan civilization (AD 200–900), a family whose individual languages are still spoken today by at least six million indigenous Maya in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. This unique resource...