Author: BOYD, Andrew.
Title: Guide to 14 Asiatic Languages.
Description: London, Pilot Press, 1947. Original yellow cloth in original dust-wrapper, War Economy paper. Post-war publishing material but a good, clean tight copy. Owner name inscription to endpaper. Used; Very Good An interesting period work, written for : "The traveller visiting the newly-awakened East.. " Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Hindustani, Japanese, Chinese, Siamese, Burmese, Malay, Tamil, Bengali. Arranged in geographic groups as comparative word-lists. With an fascinating 'Hobson-Jobson' selection of 'Anglo-Asiatic' words commonly used by English people at the time. Hardcover.

Keywords: Featured|Turkish|Arabic|Persian|Hindustani|Japanese|Chinese|Siamese|Burmese|Malay|Tamil|Bengali|Asiatic Scripts|Anglo Asiatic Glossary


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