, The major languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa (pp. 187-204). London: Routeldge.Kachru, Y (1990) Hindi-Urdu. In: Comrie, B (ed.) (1990) The Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. London: Routledge....
X. LANGUAGES OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA1. GENERALJoseph Robinson Cooke, Pronominal Reference in Thai,Burmese, and Vietnamese. Dissertation, University of Cali-fornia, Berkeley, 1965. 307 pp.*This study is concerned with usage relating to personal pronouns and alsoother forms which like them are used ...
This work is a guide to the languages and literatures of Southeast Asia, a huge region, almost as large as western and eastern Europe combined, with a multitude of ethnic groups, languages, religions, social structures and governments. The area is home to almost 450 million people speaking hun...
The languages in Southeast Asia largely fall into five groups: • Kra–Dai • Austronesian • Austroasiatic • Hmong–Mien • Sino-Tibetan While the majority of South East Asian languages fit within these groups, there are a few exceptions. Take Kenaboi, for example. Now extinct, this...
South Asia has long been considered a region of widespread convergence in phonology, morphology, and syntax. While these claims have not explicitly been extended to intonation in previous work, researchers such as Fery (2010) have suggested that multiple South Asian languages (SALs) from different ...
1)strikingly different差别显著许多人不理解strikingly,要么不译,要么错译为“严格不同”,“完全差别”。 2)sothat?如此?以至于由于sothat间隔长,有的考生看不道这一句法结构,错把that后的从句当作South Asia的定语,译文语义混乱。 3)fabricating编造这个词许多人不认识,错译为“构造”,“修饰”,“弄错”或“修改...
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Below is the article summary. For the full article, seeAsia. Asia, Largest continent on Earth. It is bounded by theArctic,Pacific, andIndianoceans. The western boundary, withEurope, runs roughly north-south along the easternUral Mountains; theCaspian,Black...
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Afro-Asiatic languages, languages of common origin found in the northern part of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and some islands and adjacent areas in Western Asia. About 250 Afro-Asiatic languages are spoken today by a total of approximately 250 million
A large family of languages spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, comprising the Semitic, Chadic, Cushitic, Berber, Omotic, and ancient Egyptian languages; formerly known as Hamito-Semitic. Af′ro-A′si·at′icadj. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition....