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Asia -- Languages

Here are entered general works on the languages used in Asia, including languages originating in Europe or other places outside Asia. Works on the indigenous languages of Asia are entered under Oriental languages.

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• Asia -- Languages -- Bibliography
• Asia -- Languages -- Conversation and phrase books
• Asia -- Languages -- Foreign elements
• Asia -- Languages -- Foreign words and phrases
• Asia -- Languages -- Influence on English
• Asia -- Languages -- Periodicals
• Altaic languages
• Asia, Central -- Languages
• Orient -- Languages
• Oriental languages
• Afghanistan -- Languages
• Azerbaijan -- Languages
• Bangladesh -- Languages
• Burma -- Languages
• Cambodia -- Languages
• China -- Languages
• Georgia (Republic) -- Languages
• India -- Languages
• Iran -- Languages
• Iraq -- Languages
• Israel -- Languages
• Japan -- Languages
• Kazakhstan -- Languages
• Korea -- Languages
• Kyrgyzstan -- Languages
• Laos -- Languages
• Malaysia -- Languages
• Mongolia -- Languages
• Nepal -- Languages
• Pakistan -- Languages
• Philippines -- Languages
• Singapore -- Languages
• Taiwan -- Languages
• Tajikistan -- Languages
• Thailand -- Languages
• Turkey -- Languages
• United Arab Emirates -- Languages
• Uzbekistan -- Languages
• Vietnam -- Languages
• Yemen (Republic) -- Languages

• Papers on South Asian linguistics. (Dept. of Linguistics, University of Illinois, 1973), by Braj B. Kachru (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glossário luso-asiático (Imprensa da Universidade, 1919), by Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado and Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Asia polyglotta (Heideloff & Campe, 1831), by Julius von Klaproth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires relatifs à l'Asie, contenant des recherches historiques, géographiques et philologiques sur les peuples de l'Orient (Librairie orientale de Dondey-Dupré, 1826), by Julius von Klaproth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allgemeine Sprachenkunde mit dem Vater unser als Sprachprobe (In der Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1806), by Johann Christoph Adelung (page images at HathiTrust)
• Languages spoken in Asia ([s.n.], 1946), by E. B. Renaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Asia polyglotta (Paris : A. Schubart, 1823., 1823), by Julius von Klaproth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Izdanīi︠a︡ Fakulʹteta vostochnykh i︠a︡zykov Imperatorskago S-Peterburgskago universiteta. (Tip. Imperatorskoĭ akademii nauk, 1899), by Sankt-Peterburgskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ universitet. Fakulʹtet vostochnykh i︠a︡zykov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Proben der volkslitteratur der türkischen stämme ... (Commissionäre der Kaiserlichen akademie der wissenschaften: Eggers et co : [etc., etc.], 1866), by V. V. Radlov, Valentīn Aleksi͡eevīch Moshkov, N. F. Katanov, and Ignácz Kúnos (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Max Müller's survey of languages (Williams and Norgate, 1855), by F. Max Müller and A. Petermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die altaische Völker- und Sprachenwelt. (Teubner, 1921), by Heinrich Winkler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Proben der Volkslitteratur der türkischen Stämme ... (Commissionäre der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften: Eggers et co; [etc., etc.], 1866), by V. V. Radlov, ValentiÌ„n AleksiÍ¡eeviÌ„ch Moshkov, N. F. Katanov, and Ignácz Kúnos (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Obraztsy narodnoi literatury sievernykh tiurkskikh plemen = Proben der Volkslitteratur der Nördlichen Türkischen Stämme. (1885), by V. V. Radlov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das sprachgeschlecht der Titanen; darstellung der ursprünglichen verwandtschaft der tatariscen sprachen unter sich und mit der sprache der Hellenen, und andeutung der zunächst daraus hervorgehenden folgen für die geschichte der sprachen und völker. (J. D. Sauerländer, 1837), by Josef von Xylander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die sprache der zweiten columne der dreisprachigen inschriften und das altaische ... (Breslau, 1896), by Heinrich Winkler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nordiska resor och forskningar. (Finska Litteratur-Sällskapets Tryckeri, 1852), by M. Alexander Castrén, Carl Gustav Borg, B. O. Schauman, and G. W. Edlund (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das personalpronomen in den Altaischen sprachen. I. (F. Dümmler, 1865), by Otto Donner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The languages of the seat of war in the East. (Williams and Norgate' [etc., etc.], 1855), by F. Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die Sprache des Hiung-nu-Stammes und der Tung-hu-Stämme (Druck der Kokubunsha, 1900), by Kurakichi Shiratori (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Altaic hieroglyphs and Hittite inscriptions (Published for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund by A. P. Watt, 1889), by C. R. Conder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The languages of the seat of war in the East with a survey of the three families of language, Semitic, Arian and Turanian (Williams and Norgate, 1855), by F. Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Central Asian Monuments, ed. by H. B. Paksoy
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• Le yidghah et le yagnobi; étude sur deux dialectes de l'Asie Centrale. (F. Hayez, imprimeur, 1883), by J. van den Gheyn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aufsätze zur Kultur- und Sprachgeschichte vornehmlich des Orients : Ernst Kuhn zum 70. Geburtstage am 7. Februar 1916 gewidmet von Freunden und Schülern, München 1916. (Verlag von M. & H. Marcus, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Bibliothèque d'étude. (Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, 1908), by Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Revue orientale et américaine. (Paris, in the 20th century), by Léon de Rosny, France) Société d'ethnographie (Paris, and France) Société américaine de France (Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morgenländische forschungen. (F. A. Brockhaus, 1875) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mélanges asiatiques (Dondey-Dupré, père et fils, 1825), by Abel Rémusat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhétorique et prosodie des langues de l'Orient musulman. (Maisonneuve, 1873), by M. Garcin de Tassy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glossário luso-asiático (Imprensa da Universidade, 1919), by Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado and Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Feestbundel aan prof. M. J. de Goeje op den 6den October 1891 aangeboden door eenige oud-leerlingen. (E. J. Brill, 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tōhō gengoshi sōkō (Iwanami Shoten, 1927), by Izuru Shinmura (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mélanges asiatiques, ou, choix de morceaux de critique et de mémoires, relatifs aux religions, aux sciences, aux coutumes, à l'histoire et à la géographie des nations orientales (Dondey-Dupré père et fils, 1825), by Abel Rémusat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoir of Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer (s.n., 1892), by August Müller and Henrietta Szold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lehrbücher des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen zu Berlin. (W. Spemann [etc.], 1890), by Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin. Ausland-Hochschule and Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin. Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Joh. Henrici Hottingeri, S. Th. D. et in Electorali Heidelbergensium Academia professeris [sic], Smegma orientale : sordibus barbarismi, contemtui praesertim linguarum orientalium oppositum. (Typis & impensis Adriani Wyngaerden, Academ. bibliopolae & typographi, 1658), by Johann Heinrich Hottinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allgemeine geschichte der morgenlåndischen sprachen und litteratur ... Nebst einem anhang zur morgenlåndischen schriftgeschichte, mit elf tafeln in kupfer gestochner alphabete, (J. G. I. Breitkopf, 1784), by S. F. Günther Wahl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die Monatsnamen einiger alter Völker, insbesondere der Perser, Cappadocier, Juden und Syrer. (G. Reimer, 1836), by Theodor Benfey and M.A. Stern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reisen durch Syrien, Palästina, Phönicien, die Transjordan-Länder, Arabia Petraea und Unter-Aegypten. (G. Reimer, 1854), by Ulrich Jasper Seetzen, Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer, Georg Friedrich Hermann Müller, Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs, and Fr. Kruse (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Bulghah fī uṣūl al-lughah (Maṭbaʻat al-Jawāʼib, 1879), by Nawab of Bhopal Muḥammad Ṣiddīq Ḥasan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Linguistic and oriental essays : Written from the year 1840 to 1901 (Trübner & co. ;, 1880), by Robert Needham Cust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Izdanīi︠a︡ Fakulʹteta vostochnykh i︠a︡zykov Imperatorskago S-Peterburgskago universiteta. (Tip. Imperatorskoĭ akademii nauk, 1899), by Sankt-Peterburgskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ universitet. Fakulʹtet vostochnykh i︠a︡zykov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trudy po vostokovi︠e︡d︠ie︡nī︠iu︡ (Tip. i slovolitnai︠a︡ O.O. Gerbeka., 1899), by Lazarevskīĭ institut vostochnykh i︠a︡zykov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Report on a linguistic mission to Afghanistan (Harvard university press;, 1926), by Georg Morgenstierne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh ([Des Moines, Iowa] : LBS Archival Products, 1992., 1992), by J. Biddulph (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Narody naseli︠a︡i︠u︡shchīe Gindu-Kush (2006), by J. Biddulph (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh. (Office of the superintendent of government printing, 1880), by J. Biddulph (page images at HathiTrust)

• Studies in Burmese linguistics (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University, 2005), by Justin Watkins and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers in Southeast Asian linguistics, no.13 : studies in Burmese languages (Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1995), by David Bradley and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Dept. of Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Langues des peuples non chinois de la Chine (E. Leroux, 1912), by Henri d' Ollone, Henri Eugène de Boyve, XXX. Lepage, and Pierre Gabriel Edmond Fleurelle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The languages of China before the Chinese. (D. Nutt, 1887), by Terrien de Lacouperie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les langues de la Chine avant les Chinois ... (E. Leroux, 1888), by Terrien de Lacouperie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yün-nan : the link between India and the Yangtze (The University Press, 1909), by Henry Rodolph Davies (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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