Languages, Modern
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Languages, Modern -- Dictionaries
- Languages, Modern -- Periodicals
- Languages, Modern -- Semantics
- Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching
- Foreign languages
- Languages, Foreign
- Languages, Living
- Living languages
- Modern languages
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A Comparative Dictionary of the Languages of India and High Asia, With a Dissertation: Based on the Hodgson Lists, Official Records, and Mss. (London: Trübner and co., 1868), by William Wilson Hunter- Le Dictionnaire des Six Langues; Das Sechssprachige Wörterbuch; The Six-languages Dictionary; El Diccionario de las Seis Lenguas; Il Dizionario Delle Sei Lingue; O Diccionario das Seis Linguas: Médaille à l'Exposition Universelle de Paris 1900 (in French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; Lisbon: Empresa Editora do "Occidente", 1902), by Francisco de Almeida
- Modern Language Quarterly (1940-) (partial serial archives)
- Les Langues Modernes (in French) (partial serial archives)
- The Modern Language Journal (partial serial archives)
- Anti-Chamberlain: Betrachtungen Eines Linguisten Über Houston Stewart Chamberlains "Kriegsaufsätze" und die Sprachbewertung im Allgemeinen (in German; Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1918), by Leo Spitzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Outline Guide for the Practical Study of Foreign Languages (Baltimore: Linguistic Society of America, 1942), by Leonard Bloomfield (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Modern Language Journal (partial serial archives)
- The Scientific Study and Teaching of Languages: A Review of the Factors and Problems Connected With the Learning and Teaching of Modern Languages, With an Analysis of the Various Methods Which May Be Adopted in Order to Attain Satisfactory Results (London: G.G. Harrap and Co., 1917), by Harold E. Palmer
- The Art of Teaching and Studying Languages (second edition; London: G. Philip and Son; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1892), by François Gouin, trans. by Howard Swan and Victor Bétis (multiple formats at archive.org)
- L'Art d'Enseigner et d'Étudier les Langues (in French; Paris: G. Flachbacher, 1880), by François Gouin
- Foreign Language Framework for California Public Schools: Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (2003), by California Department of Education (PDF at cde.ca.gov)
- Developments in Linguistics and Semiotics, Language Teaching and Learning, Communication Across Cultures (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1986; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1987), ed. by Simon P. X. Battestini (PDF at Georgetown)
- Semantics: Theory and Application (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1976; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1976), ed. by Cléa Rameh, contrib. by Winfred P. Lehmann, Jorge Hankamer, Ray Jackendoff, Geoffrey N. Leech, Barbara Hall Partee, Oswald Werner, Martin D. Topper, Chuck Rieger, Gilbert Harman, Alfonso Caramazza, Ellen Grober, Frances M. Aid, Milton Mariano Azevedo, Christopher Candlin, and Ragnhild Söderbergh (PDF at Georgetown)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Languages, Artificial- The Primary Synopsis of Universology and Alwato: The New Scientific Universal Language (New York: D. Thomas, 1871), by Stephen Pearl Andrews (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Universal Alphabet, Grammar, and Language: Comprising a Scientific Classification of The Radical Elements of Discourse and Illustrative Translations From The Holy Scriptures and The Principal British Classics; To Which Is Added a Dictionary of The Language (London and Glassgow: R. Griffin and Co., ca. 1856), by George Edmonds
- International Language, Past Present and Future; With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1907), by Walter John Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Defects of Esperanto, Its Decline and the Growth of Ilo: An Address Delivered in the New York Ilo Society on the First Meeting of the New Year, January 21st, 1909 (New York: Universal Language Pub. Co, 1909), by Max Talmey
- Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax: New Research on a Lesser-Known Scandinavian Language (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2015), ed. by Kristine Bentzen, Janne Bondi Johannessen, and Henrik Rosenkvist (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
- Die Sprachen der Hamiten (in German; Hamburg: L. Friederischsen und Co., 1912), by Carl Meinhof, contrib. by Felix von Luschan
- The Uganda Protectorate (2 volumes, possibly from different editions; 1902-1904), by Harry Johnston, illust. by J. G. Bartholomew (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
- Einleitung zu Einer Amringisch-Föhringischen Sprachlehre (in German; Norden and Leipzig: D. Soltau, 1888), by Otto Bremer
- Central Asian Monuments, ed. by H. B. Paksoy
- De Belgische Taalwetten (in Dutch; Gent: A. Siffer, 1892), by Alphonse Napoléon Prayon-van Zuylen van Nyevelt (page images at HathiTrust)
- Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture: Reframing the Past (London: UCL Press, 2016), ed. by Jane Fenoulhet and Lesley Gilbert
- From Revolt to Riches: Culture and History of the Low Countries, 1500-1700, ed. by Theo Hermans and R. Salverda (PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press)
- DND Language Reform: Staffing the Bilingualism Programs, 1967-1977, by Armand Letellier (PDF in Canada)
- A Trip Through the Eastern Caucasus, With a Chapter on the Languages of the Country (London: E. Stanford, 1889), by John Abercromby
- The Languages of China Before the Chinese: Researches on the Languages Spoken by the Pre-Chinese Races of China Proper Previously to the Chinese Occupation (London: D. Nutt, 1887), by Terrien de Lacouperie
- Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by LuMing Mao (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Comparative Handbook of Congo Languages (1903), by Walter Henry Stapleton
- A Method of Transliteration of the Proper Names of Scripture into Congo Languages (Lukolela: Baptist Missionary Society, 1910), by John Whitehead and Lilian Frederica Whitehead (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Einleitung zu Einer Amringisch-Föhringischen Sprachlehre (in German; Norden and Leipzig: D. Soltau, 1888), by Otto Bremer
- The Spoken Word: Oral Culture in Britain, 1500-1850 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2002), ed. by Adam Fox and D. R. Woolf (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
- Smoky Mountain Folks and Their Lore (c1960), by Joseph S. Hall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Language, Identity, and Power in Modern India: Gujarat, c. 1850-1960 (London and New York: Routledge, c2022), by Riho Isaka (multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)
- The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Selma K. Sonntag and Mark Turin (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Aboriginal American Authors and Their Productions, Especially Those in the Native Languages: A Chapter in the History of Literature, by Daniel G. Brinton (Gutenberg text)
- The Distribution of Aboriginal Tribes and Languages in Northwestern Mexico (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1934), by Carl Ortwin Sauer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Notes Upon the Ethnography of Southern Mexico (2 parts, reprinted from Proceedings of Davenport Academy of Sciences; 1900-1902), by Frederick Starr
- Chimariko Grammar: Areal and Typological Perspective (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2009), by Carmen Jany (Javascript-dependent page images at UC Press)
- Hittites in America (c. 1881), by John Campbell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico, by John Wesley Powell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Indian Migrations, As Evidenced By Language: Comprising the Huron-Cherokee Stock, the Dakota Stock, the Algonkins, the Chahta-Muskoki Stock, the Moundbuilders, the Iberians (1883), by Horatio Hale (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On Numerals in Indian Languages and the Indian Mode of Counting, by J. Hammond Trumbull (multiple formats at archive.org)
- New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America (first edition; Philadelphia: Printed for the author by J. Bioren, 1797), by Benjamin Smith Barton
- New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America (second edition; Philadelphia: Printed for the author by J. Bioeren, 1798), by Benjamin Smith Barton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Asiatic Tribes in North America (c. 1881), by John Campbell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent Coast of the Gulf of Mexico (Washington: GPO, 1911), by John Reed Swanton (multiple formats at Google)
- Le Taensa n'a pas Été Forgé de Toutes Pièces: Lettre de M. Friedrich Müller à Lucien Adam (in French and German; Paris: Maisonneuve Frères et C. Leclerc, 1885), by Friedrich Müller (multiple formats at Google)
- The Taensa Grammar and Dictionary: A Deception Exposed (reprinted from the American Antiquarian, March 1885), by Daniel G. Brinton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Le Taensa a-t-il Eté Forgé de Toutes Pièces? Réponse à M. D.G. Brinton (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve Frères et C. Leclerc, 1885), by Lucien Adam (multiple formats at Google)
- Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods (2 volumes; Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1824), by William Hypolitus Keating, contrib. by Stephen H. Long, Thomas Say, and James Edward Colhoun
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