A.M.D.G.

Kutaura Cirungu. Zezuru and English Phrase Book. New and Englarged Edition. Zakakudziridzwa.

Salisbury, Jesuit Fathers, 1939. Original card covers, stapled. 57pp. A good, clean copy with light wear and owner name to covers. Used; Good Zezuru is a dialect of the Bantu language Shona . Paperback.

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Book number: 33432

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Languages|African Language|Zezuru|Shona|Bantu|Featured

AåSE-BERIT and STRANDSKOGEN, Rolf

Norwegian: An Essential Grammar: Essential Grammars [Series]. Second Edition. Translated by Barbara White.

London, Routledge, 1989. Large p/b.202pp. Provides an accessible description of the language. Focusing on real patterns of use in the modern language. Suitable for independent study or for class-based tuition.

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Book number: 38142

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Grammar|Germanic|Featured|Scandinavian

ABONDOLO, Daniel.

The Uralic Languages. Routledge Language Family Descriptions.

London & New York, Routledge, 1998. 8vo. hardback, xxiv+619pp. maps. In excellent condition. A very nice hardback copy. Clean and tight, barely used. Owner name neatly to half-title.

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Book number: 38245

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Reference|Uralic|Finno-Ugric|Linguistics |Featured

Academia de la Llingua Asturiana

Gramática de la Llingua Asturiana Tercera Edición.

Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2001. P/b. 442pp. As new. Unused, crisp and clean. Asturian is a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Principality of Asturias, Spain. Asturian is part of a wider linguistic group, the Asturleonese languages. The number of speakers is estimated at 100,000 and 450,000.

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Book number: 38406

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Indo-European|Spain|Featured|Romance Language|Grammar|Iberian

AGARD, [F. B. ] WILLIS [Raymond S], & PARATORE [Angela] (llus. Rand)

The Express Course in Basic Conversational Spanish: Record Plus Manual: Speaking and Writing Spanish. [Cover Illustration by Rand]

London, Daily Express, n.d. Colour illustrated boxed set (31 x 31 x4.5 cm) comprising hardback in original dust-wrapper, b/w plates, 165+lvi pp. in inner compartment, and two vinyl 33 1/3 RPM records in original sleeves. A very nice bright box and records. Very light signs of use. Clean and tight. Book showing some some signs of age and wear. Dust-wrapper torn. "To enable you to get so much more out of your travels whether on pleasure or business.".

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Book number: 37755

Catalogue: Vintage Language Records

Keywords: Spanish|Romance Language|Record|Vinyl|Linguistics |Featured|Book-Cover-Design

AHMAD, Abd. Samad

Nakhoda Tenggang (Malay Reader) (Anak Derhaka - Riwayat Batu Keb)

Kuala Lumpur, Khee Meng Press, n.d. Not dated but around 1970. Pictorial coloured wrappers. Used; Very Good Entire text in Malay. Roman script. Paperback.

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Book number: 29864

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Featured|Book-Cover Design|Malay|Malayo-Polynesian|Austronesian

AHMAD, Inche Sulaiman Bin.

A Practice in Malay Conversation. Based on His 20 Years' Experience of Giving Malay Private Tuition to Europeans in Singapore. Second Edition.

Singapore, Marican and Sons, 1956. Cloth backed boards, 128 pp. Tear to spine head, otherwise a very good copy. A very good copy. 'Hashim Malay Book Seller' stamp to f.ep. First published by S. B. A. Publishing. This 1956 edition published by Marican in Orchard Road. With tests and examination papers. Paperback.

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Book number: 14776

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Singapore|South East Asia|Malaysian|Malay|Featured

AHN, F.

A New Practical and Easy Method of Learning the Swedish Language After the System of F. Ahn.

London, Franz Thimm,, 1858. Original buckram boards, spine lettered gilt (Lenström's Swedish Grammar), upper cover stamped in blind. vi+149pp. publisher's lists to endpapers. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Collectable; Very Good An interesting early example of language teaching theory: "The editor of this Grammar has followed the rational System.." c.f. Direct and Natural Methods. Hardcover.

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Book number: 33484

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Keywords: Swedish|Scandinavian|Grammar|Antiquarian|Featured

ÄIMÄ, Frans

Phonetik Und Lautlehre Des Inarilappischen. I: Beobachtungsphonetik Und Deskriptive Lautlehre. II: Instrumentale Messungen. Erste Lieferung. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia.

Helsinki, Société Finno-Ougrienne Harrassowitz, 1918. In two volumes, complete. Good, clean, tight copies. Ex public library retaining original printed wrappers. With b/w plates in back, complete. Scrape to vol I upper cover. Texts in German. Used; Very Good Inari Samis (Lapp) language. "Inari Sámi is a Sami language spoken by the Inari Sami of Finland. It has approximately 300 speakers, the majority of whom are middle-aged or older and live in the municipality of Inari. According to the Sami Parliament of Finland, 269 persons used Inari Sami as their first language. It is the only Sami language that is spoken exclusively in Finland. The language is classified as being seriously endangered as few children learn it " Wiki . Hardback.

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Book number: 36260

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Lapp|Sami|Sammi|Language|Finno-Ugrian|Featured|

AIZLEWOOD, Robin.

Routledge Intensive Russian Course. Routledge Intensive Language Courses.

London, Routledge, 2007. Large p/b. 19 x 25 cm. 1kg. As new, appears unused, tight and clean. This intensive foundation course in Russian is designed for students with no previous knowledge of the language. Developed primarily for classroom use, the course offers an original and distinctive approach to language learning, presenting Russian in context offering access to Russian life, culture, history and society.

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Book number: 37547

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Slavonic|Linguistics |Featured|Grammar

ALDRICH, Harry S..

Practical Chinese. Volume I. & Volume II. American Edition. Hua Yu Hsu Chih. Including a Dictionary of 5000 Everyday Terms. With a Foreword by H E Mr Nelson Trusler Johnson.

New Haven, Connecticut, Department of Oriental Studies, Yale University, 1942. Two volumes in one. A very nice hardback copy in original blue cloth, gilt lettered. x+182pp+97pp. Almost as new. Clean, bright and tight. Unused. H.E.F. Savage's neat stamp to title p. Used; Very Good Volume one starts from back and comprises some 66pp of Chinese text. Volume two, grammar and vocabulary for English speakers, starts from front. Harry S Aldrich was First Lieutenant, US Army, Chinese Language Officer, American Legation, Peiping (Beijing), Nelson Trusler Johnson was US Minister to China. Hardback.

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Book number: 36881

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Chinese|Featured

ALHONIEMI, Alho (trans. Hans-Hermann Bartens).

Grammatik Des Tscheremissischen (Mari): Mit Texten Und Glossar. Aus Dem Finnischen übersetzt. [Grammar of the Mari Language]. .

Hamburg, Helmut Buske, 1993. P/b. 254pp. map. Generally clean and tight but a little thumbed. Diese Grammatik vermittelt Grundkenntnisse der beiden wichtigsten Schriftsprachen des Tscheremissischen, die auf den Wiesenmundarten und auf dem Bergdialekt basieren. Texte und Glossar sind beiden Schriftsprachen entnommen.

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Book number: 38451

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Uralic|Featured|Finno-Ugric|Grammar|Russia

ALIVA, R.

The Young Ladies' First French Book. With a Vocabulary of the French and English, and the English and French of All the Words Used in the Book.

London, Hope and Co. 1854. Original 1854 first edition. Generally scarce (see COPAC). Small 8vo. orig. cloth, blind stamped, xiv+222pp. Spine unlettered,and frayed in places, cloth bubbled and rucked, inner joint cracked, very occ. pencil annotations but on the whole, for a school primer, in good condition. Used; Good From the library of Lady Sybil Stewart. Rene Aliva also wrote 'The French Language its own Teacher' and the 'Anti-Spelling Book' ".. calculated to be of immense utility to those young people who, disgusted by the pedantic manner in which French is taught.." . Hardcover.

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Book number: 33490

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Keywords: French|Juvenalia|Antiquarian|Children's|Featured

Allan, John

Verses [by John Allan (Nalla)]

Ayr, Ayrshire Post, 1932. A very nice bright hardback copy in original cloth. Clean and tight. Pages slightly yellowing with age; lacks f.e.p. else very good. Used; Very Good By the author of "Jean Sma'" and other Scots poems. Hardback.

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Book number: 35904

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Keywords: Language|Scots|Poetry|Featured

Almedia-Santos, Osmar De and Osmar De Almedia-Santos.

Brazilian Portuguese-English Dictionary & Phrasebook: English-Brazilian Portuguese (Hippocrene Dictionary & Phrasebooks).

New York, Hippocrene Books, 2005. Small format p/b. 9.5 x 19 cm. vi + 266 pp. As new, appears unused. Clean, tight and bright. This bilingual dictionary and travel-oriented phrase-book focuses on the Portuguese spoken in Brazil, A grammar and pronunciation section provides users with the basic elements of the language, while a brief introduction features cultural, geographical, and regional information about the country.

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Book number: 37658

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Phrase-Book|Dictionary|Linguistics |Romance Language|Americas|Featured