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The world's chief languages: formerly, Languages for war and peace

By Mario Pei

The world's chief languages:

formerly, Languages for war and peace

Mario Pei

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S.F. Vanni, 1946 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 663 pages

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FOREWORD	11

GEOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE	41

LANGUAGES OF THE GERMANIC GROUP	63

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accent adjective adverb aeuib alphabet appear Arabic Bulgarian Chinese clause conjugation consonant Czech Danish dative declension definite article denoting desu dialects direct object Dutch English Esperanto estd father feminine fern formed by adding French future gender genitive German gerund grammatical Greek Hungarian imperative Impf Impv indicates Indo-European infinitive inflectional interrogative Italian Japanese kudasai languages linguistic Malay masc masculine meaning negative neut neuter nominative normally noun nouns ending object pronoun passive past participle perf person Pidgin plural Polish polite Portugal Portuguese postpositions predicate prefix preposition Pres present pron pronunciation Romance languages root Roumanian Russian Serbo-Croatian singular Slavic Slavic languages sound Spanish speak speakers spoken stressed subjunctive suffix superimposed suru Swedish syllable tense tomorrow tongues Turkish umlaut usually verb vocabulary vowel word write written

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JSTOR: The Implications of the Current World Situation for Foreign ...
The Implications of the Current World Situation for Foreign Language Instruction. Jack Cohn. The Modern Language Journal, Vol. 36, No. 8, 402-404. ...
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-7902(195212)36%3A8%3C402%3ATIOTCW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7

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Rio de Janeiro - Page 287

Rio de Oro - Page 59

Yokohama - Page 535
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Vladivostok - Page 351
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Udine - Page 352

Tokyo - Page 536
more pages: 537 541 578 650

Ohio, Illinois - Page 352

Vannes - Page 451

Nagari - Page 462

Birin - Page 428

Bibliographic information

Title	The world's chief languages: formerly, Languages for war and peace
Author	Mario Pei
Edition	3
Publisher	S.F. Vanni, 1946
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	Aug 30, 2006
Length	663 pages
Subjects	Grammar, Comparative and general Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics Language and languages Linguistics

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