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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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Asia -- Languages -- Foreign elements
- Asia -- Languages -- Foreign words and phrases
- Asia -- Languages -- Influence on English
- Altaic languages
- Asia, Central -- Languages
- Oriental languages
- Bangladesh -- Languages
- Burma -- Languages
- Cambodia -- Languages
- China -- Languages
- India -- Languages
- Iran -- Languages
- Iraq -- Languages
- Japan -- Languages
- Korea -- Languages
- Nepal -- Languages
- Philippines -- Languages
- Taiwan -- Languages
- Thailand -- Languages
- Vietnam -- Languages
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Dravidian Borrowings from Indo-Aryan (University of California Publications in Linguistics v26; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1962), by M. B. Emeneau and T. Burrow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1958), by Henry Kahane, Renée Kahane, and Andreas Tietze (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, by Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
- Korean Through Active Listening (second revised edition, 2 volumes; c1996), by In-Jung Cho and Young-A Cho (PDF and zipped audio files with commentary at talkingtokoreans.com)
- Korean: Basic Course (2 volumes, 1968-1969; with supplementary audio material), by Bong Nam Park (PDF and MP3 files at livelingua.com)
- A Comparative Grammar of the Korean Language and the Dravidian Languages of India (Seoul: Methodist Publishing House, 1906), by Homer B. Hulbert
- Korean Through Active Listening (second revised edition, 2 volumes; c1996), by In-Jung Cho and Young-A Cho (PDF and zipped audio files with commentary at talkingtokoreans.com)
- Korean Through Active Listening (second revised edition, 2 volumes; c1996), by In-Jung Cho and Young-A Cho (PDF and zipped audio files with commentary at talkingtokoreans.com)
- My Korean (current electronic editions, 2 volumes; at last check 2015), by Young-A Cho, In-Jung Cho, and Douglas Ling (PDF and audio files with commentary at talkingtokoreans.com)
- My Korean (current electronic editions, 2 volumes; at last check 2015), by Young-A Cho, In-Jung Cho, and Douglas Ling (PDF and audio files with commentary at talkingtokoreans.com)
- Treacherous Translation: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2013), by Serk-Bae Suh (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)
- A Manchu Grammar, With Analysed Texts (Shanghai: Printed at the American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1892), by Paul Georg von Möllendorff (page images at HathiTrust)
- Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Gerald Roche, trans. by Limusishiden (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Gerald Roche, trans. by Limusishiden (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Gerald Roche, trans. by Limusishiden (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1958), by Henry Kahane, Renée Kahane, and Andreas Tietze (page images at HathiTrust)
- Grammaire de la Langue Turque (Dialecte Osmanli) (in French, with Turkish examples; Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, Éditions E. Leroux, 1921), by Jean Deny (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Simplified Grammar of the Ottoman-Turkish Language (London: Trübner and Co., 1884), by James W. Redhouse
- Turkish: Basic Course (2 volumes, 1966-1970, with supplementary audio material), by Lloyd B. Swift and Selman Agrali (PDF and MP3 files at livelingua.com)
- Central Asian Monuments, ed. by H. B. Paksoy
- Bridging Transcultural Divides: Asian Languages and Cultures in Global Higher Education (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2012), ed. by Xianlin Song and Kate Cadman (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
- The Lushei Kuki Clans (London: Macmillan and Co., 1912), by John Shakespear
- Synopsis of a Grammar of the Karen Language: Embracing Both Dialects, Sgau and Pgho, or Sho (Tavoy: Karen Mission Press, 1846), by Francis Mason (multiple formats at Google)
- A Manual of the Pwo Karen Dialect (in English and Pwo Karen; Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press, 1913), by C. H. Duffin (PDF at Gutenberg Australia)
- Elephant Huggy (in English and Karen; Saint Paul, MN: Saint Paul Public Library, 2015), by Win World, illust. by Jingo de la Rosa (page images at mndigital.org)
- The Hen and the Badger (in English and Karen; Saint Paul, MN: Saint Paul Public Library, 2015), by Saw Powder, illust. by Betsy LePlatt (at reflections.mndigital.org)
- Phonetics of Sgaw Karen in Thailand: An Acoustic Description (thesis; 2012), by Pongprapunt Rattanaporn (PDF at researchgate.net)
- Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader, With Drills and Glossary (1970), by Franklin E. Huffman, contrib. by Chhom-Rak Thong Lambert and Im Proum (PDF with commentary at pratyeka.org)
- Manuel Pratique de Langue Cambodgienne (in French and Khmer; Saigon: College des Stagiaires, 1874), by G. Janneau
- Manuel Pratique de Langue Cambodgienne (in French and Khmer; Saigon: College des Stagiaires, 1874), by G. Janneau
- Contemporary Cambodian: Grammatical Sketch (1972), by Madeline Elizabeth Ehrman (PDF at livelingua.com)
- Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader, With Drills and Glossary (1970), by Franklin E. Huffman, contrib. by Chhom-Rak Thong Lambert and Im Proum (PDF with commentary at pratyeka.org)
- Cambodian: Basic Course (2 volumes; with audio files for volume 1 and additional materials), by Richard B. Noss and Im Proum (PDF and MP3 files at livelingua.com)
- Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader, With Drills and Glossary (1970), by Franklin E. Huffman, contrib. by Chhom-Rak Thong Lambert and Im Proum (PDF with commentary at pratyeka.org)
- A Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect (Macao: S. W. Williams, 1841), by E. C. Bridgman
- First Lessons in the Swatow Dialect (Shantou: Swotow Office Printing Co., 1878), by Adele M. Fielde
- Cantonese: Basic Course (2 volumes, 1970, with supplementary audio material), by Elizabeth Latimore Boyle and Pauline Ng Delbridge (PDF and MP3 files at livelingua.com)
- Lamjung Yolmo - Nepali - English Dictionary (c2011), by Lauren Gawne (at repository.cam.ac.uk)
- Lamjung Yolmo - Nepali - English Dictionary (c2011), by Lauren Gawne (at repository.cam.ac.uk)
- Ancient and Modern Alphabets of the Popular Hindu Languages of the Southern Peninsula of India (London: Published for the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland by J.W. Parker, 1837), by Henry Harkness
- A Primer in Oriya Characters (1985), by P. C. Mishra (page images at Chicago)
- Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970, by Sumathi Ramaswamy (HTML at UC Press)
- Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803-1956 (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Pritipuspa Mishra (PDF and HTML at Cambridge University Press)
- Ancient and Modern Alphabets of the Popular Hindu Languages of the Southern Peninsula of India (London: Published for the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland by J.W. Parker, 1837), by Henry Harkness
- A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages (London: Harrison, 1856), by Robert Caldwell
- A Comparative Grammar of the Korean Language and the Dravidian Languages of India (Seoul: Methodist Publishing House, 1906), by Homer B. Hulbert
- Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970, by Sumathi Ramaswamy (HTML at UC Press)
- A Primer in Oriya Characters (1985), by P. C. Mishra (page images at Chicago)
- Account of the Valley of Munnipore and of the Hill Tribes, With a Comparative Vocabulary of the Munnipore and Other Languages (Kolkata: Bengal Printing Co., 1859), by W. McCulloch
- New Advances in Formosan Linguistics (Canberra: Australian National University, 2015), ed. by Elizabeth Zeitoun, Stacy Fang-Ching Teng, and Joy J. Wu (PDF at ANU)
More items available under narrower terms.