Of Languages and Numbers

Books

Vanishing Voices: the Extinction of the World’s Languages [, ], by Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine, Oxford University Press (2002)

The authors show us the problematics of languages extinction that goes faster nowadays. They analyze this process from the point of view of language history and language spreading. They also explain the concept of linguistic biodiversity, as linguistic diversity occupies the same geographic, economic and social territories as biodiversity. Each language dying makes disappear a specific vision of the world as it gathers in its vocabulary all the field experience of the people who speak it. Where western technical vocabulary is only a nomenclature which is always behind species extinction to create new names, oceanian languages name fishes according to the type of hook used to catch them. With such living examples, they show us the true value of the ecology of languages.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition [], SIL International (2009)

Natural languages

• Afrikaans
  • A Grammar of Afrikaans [, ], Bruce C. Donaldson, Walter de Gruyter (1993)

• Albanian
  • Standard Albanian: A Reference Grammar for Students [, ], Leonard Newmark, Philip Hubbard, Peter Prifti, Stanford University Press (1982)

• Aloápam Zapotec
  • San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Dictionary (Vols. 1 and 2) [, ], UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Publications (1999)

• Armenian
  • Elementary Modern Armenian Grammar [, ], Kevork H. Gulian, Adamant Media Corporation (2005)
  • Beginner’s Armenian [, ], Hagop Andonian, Hippocrene Books (1999)

• Azerbaijani
  • Azerbaijani-English, English-Azerbaijani dictionary and phrasebook [, ], Nicholas Awde, Famil Ismailov, Hippocrene Books (1999)

• Bulgarian
  • Intensive Bulgarian: A Textbook & Reference Grammar (Vol 1) [, ], Ronelle Alexander, Olga M. Mladenova, University of Wisconsin Press (2000)
  • A comprehensive Bulgarian grammar for foreign learners [, ], Lily Earl, Daniela Ubenova (2000)

• Catalan
  • Catalan: A Comprehensive Grammar [, ], Nicolau Dols, Routledge (1999)

• Cherokee
  • Beginning Cherokee [, ], Ruth Bradley Holmes, Betty Sharp Smith, University of Oklahoma Press (1992)

• Choapan Zapotec
  • San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Dictionary (Vols. 1 and 2) [, ], UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Publications (1999)

• Dzambazi Romani
  • Gypsy Dialects: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Materials for the Practical Study of Romani [, ], Edward Proctor, University Of Hertfordshire Press (2008)

• English
  • A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language [, ], Quirk, Randolph, & Others, Longman (1985)

• French
  • A Comprehensive French Grammar [, ], Glanville Price, Wiley-Blackwell (2007)
  • French Grammar: A Complete Reference Guide [, ], Daniel Calvez, McGraw-Hill (2004)

• French (Belgium)
  • A Comprehensive French Grammar [, ], Glanville Price, Wiley-Blackwell (2007)
  • French Grammar: A Complete Reference Guide [, ], Daniel Calvez, McGraw-Hill (2004)

• French (Switzerland)
  • A Comprehensive French Grammar [, ], Glanville Price, Wiley-Blackwell (2007)
  • French Grammar: A Complete Reference Guide [, ], Daniel Calvez, McGraw-Hill (2004)

• German
  • Schaum’s Outline of German Grammar, 4ed [, ], Elke Gschossmann-Hendershot, Lois Feuerle, McGraw-Hill (2009)
  • Comprehensive German Grammar [], Jonathan West, Blackwell Publishers (2003)

• Igbo
  • Igbo for Beginners [], Joyce Okwumo, Morris Publishing (2009)
  • Igbo-English English-Igbo Dictionary and Phrasebook [, ], Nicholas Awde, Hippocrene Books (1999)

• Indonesian
  • Indonesian: A Comprehensive Grammar [, ], James Neil Sneddon, Routledge (1996)

• Ingush
  • Ingush Grammar [], Johanna Nichols, University of California Press (2010)

• Isthmus Zapotec
  • San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Dictionary (Vols. 1 and 2) [, ], UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Publications (1999)

• Italian
  • Italian Grammar [, ], Marcel Danesi, Barron’s Educational Series (2002)
  • Essential Italian Grammar [, ], Olga Ragusa, Dover Publications (1963)

• Kalderash Romani
  • Learn Romani: Das-duma Rromanes [, ], Ronald Lee, University Of Hertfordshire Press (2005)
  • Gypsy Dialects: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Materials for the Practical Study of Romani [, ], Edward Proctor, University Of Hertfordshire Press (2008)

• Lachixío Zapotec
  • San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Dictionary (Vols. 1 and 2) [, ], UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Publications (1999)

• Mapudungun
  • A Grammar of Mapuche [, ], Ineke Smeets, Walter de Gruyter (2008)
  • Mapudungun (Languages of the world) [, ], Fernando Zúñiga, Lincom Europa (2000)

• Mussau-Emira
  • Languages of New Ireland Province: Kuot Language, Mussau-Emira Language, Kara Language, Nalik Language, Sursurunga Language, Tigak Language [, ], Books LLC (2010)

• Navajo
  • Dine Bizaad: Speak, Read, Write Navajo [, ], Irvy W. Goossen, Salina Bookshelf (1995)
  • Colloquial Navajo: A Dictionary [, ], Robert W. Young & William Morgan, Hippocrene Books (1994)

• Ojibwa
  • Nishnaabemwin reference grammar [, ], J. Randolph Valentine, University of Toronto Press (2001)

• Pennsylvania German
  • A Pennsylvania German Reader and Grammar [, ], Earl C. Haag, Pennsylvania State University Press (1978)

• Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Pois não: Brazilian Portuguese Course for Spanish Speakers, with Basic Reference Grammar [, ], Antônio Roberto Monteiro Simões, University of Texas Press (2008)
  • Portuguese grammar: a complete, concise and practical reference, Sonia Celegatti Althoff (2008)

• Portuguese (Portugal)
  • Portuguese grammar: a complete, concise and practical reference, Sonia Celegatti Althoff (2008)

• Romani
  • Gypsy Dialects: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Materials for the Practical Study of Romani [, ], Edward Proctor, University Of Hertfordshire Press (2008)

• Santa Ana Yareni Zapotec
  • San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Dictionary (Vols. 1 and 2) [, ], UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Publications (1999)

• Serbian
  • Serbian Grammar [, ], Dragutin Subotic, Pennsylvania General Books (2010)
  • Simplified Grammar of the Serbian Language [], Morfill, William Richard, BiblioBazaar (2009)
  • Introduction to the Croatian and Serbian Language [, ], Thomas F. Magner, Pennsylvania State University Press (1995)

• Shona
  • Beginner’s Shona (ChiShona) [, ], Aquilina Mawadza, Hippocrene Books (2003)
  • Shona Mini Companion. A Guide for Beginners [, ], Desmond Dale, Mambo Press (1981)

• Slovene
  • Slovene: A Comprehensive Grammar [, ], Peter Herrity, Routledge (2000)

• Somali
  • Colloquial Somali: a complete language course [, ], Martin Orwin, Routledge (1995)
  • Practical Grammar of the Somali Language, with a Manual of Sentences [, ], Évangéliste de Larajasse, BiblioLife (2009)

• Spanish
  • Spanish Grammar [, ], Christopher Kendris, Barron’s Educational Series (2001)
  • A Comprehensive Spanish Grammar [, ], Jacques De Bruyne, Wiley-Blackwell (1996)

• Spanish (Puerto Rico)
  • Spanish Grammar [, ], Christopher Kendris, Barron’s Educational Series (2001)
  • A Comprehensive Spanish Grammar [, ], Jacques De Bruyne, Wiley-Blackwell (1996)

• Turkish
  • Turkish: a comprehensive grammar [, ], Aslı Göksel, Celia Kerslake, Routledge (2005)

• Venetian
  • Venetian Language: Grand Manan Island [, ], Books LLC (2010)

• Yup’ik
  • Yup’ik (Central Eskimo) Language Guide (and more!), Terryl Miller, World Friendship Publishing (2006)
  • Practical Grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup’ik Eskimo Language [, ], Steven A. Jacobson, Alaska Native Language Center (1995)
  • My Yupik Counting Book: Counting To “10” in Yupik [, ], Helen Marrs, CreateSpace (2009)

Artificial languages

• Quenya
  • Arda philology (book I and II), proceedings of the 2005 and 2007 Omentielva conferences

• Sindarin
  • A Gateway to Sindarin: A Grammar of an Elvish Language from JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Ring [, ], David Salo, University of Utah Press (2007)