R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley - Atlas of the World’s Languages

ATLAS
of the
WORLDS
LANGUAGES

Second edition

ATLAS
of the
WORLDS
LANGUAGES

Second edition

GENERAL EDITORS

R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley

SECTION EDITORS
R. E. Asher, David Bradley, Lyle Campbell, Bernard Comrie, Ives Goddard, Victor Golla, Arthur Irvine, Terrence Kaufman, J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Marianne Mithun, Mauricio Mixco, Darrell Tryon and Benji Wald

CARTOGRAPHIC EDITOR
Giles Darkes

First published 1994 by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

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Second edition published in 2007

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Selection and editorial matter 1994, 2007 R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley Individual contributors 1994, 2007 for their respective sections

Language index compiled by Gerard Hill

Maps copyright Routledge 2007

First edition cartography by Simon-Robertson Petroleum Technology, Llandudno, Wales

Second edition cartography by Oxford Cartographers, Oasis Park, Eynsham, Oxford, UK

Figure 4.5 is adapted from a map prepared by K. A. Adelaar published in the Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia and the Americas, Wurm, Mhlhusler and Tryon (eds).

Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996.

International boundaries are indicative and subject to the scale of mapping.

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Printed and bound in Great Britain by Scotprint, Haddington

R. E. Asher and Christopher Mosely, in terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (1988), have asserted their moral right to be regarded as the Editors of this Atlas.

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ISBN10: 0415310741

ISBN13: 9780415310741

Contents

R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley

Section 1
North America

Victor Golla, Ives Goddard, Lyle Campbell, Marianne Mithun, and Mauricio Mixco Contributor: J. Lachlan Mackenzie

Section 2
Meso-America

Terrence Kaufman

Section 3
South America

Terrence Kaufman with the help of Brent Berlin

Section 4
Australasia and the Pacific

Darrell Tryon

Section 5
East and South-East Asia

David Bradley Contributor: Alan Sanders

Section 6
Southern Asia: from Iran to Bangladesh

R. E. Asher

Section 7
Northern Asia and Eastern Europe

Bernard Comrie Contributor: Alan Sanders

Section 8
Western Europe

J. Lachlan Mackenzie

Section 9
The Middle East and North Africa

A. K. Irvine Contributor: David Appleyard

Section 10
Sub-Saharan Africa

Benji Wald

North America

Meso-America

South America

Australasia and the Pacific

East and South-East Asia

Southern Asia

Northern Asia and Eastern Europe

Western Europe

Middle East and North Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa

Key to map legends, colours and symbols