New from Panini Press: Sprachgeist Guides for the Linguist on the Go!—Part IV
As any linguist knows, it’s useful—and sometimes vital—to get an accurate picture of a language you’re not a specialist in, and to do it quickly. Unfortunately, up to now, doing so has involved trying to plow through reference grammars, and we all know the problems with those! You can cut through all that and get all the really important information about a language—its Sprachgeist, if you will—with a volume from Panini Press’s continuing series! ❦पा
Available Now:
Nuxálk: Vowels? We Don’t Need No Stinking Vowels!
Proto-Indo-European: Why So Many Laryngeals? *h₁eybʰ- You! That’s Why!
Rotokas: Where Nasals Are Reserved for Ridiculing Foreigners
Coming Soon:
Romanian: You Got Your Slavic on My Romance! You Got Your Romance in My Slavic!
Scots: Hou the Inglis Leid Micht Hae Soondit, Gif the Normans Haedna Defeatit Keeng Harold
Welsh: Aspiring to Nuxálkian Levels of Vowellessness
Also Available in the “Less Secure Language” Sub-Series:
Afrikaans: We’re Not Dutch, and We Changed Our Spelling Just Enough To Prove It
Gan, Hakka, Jin, Min, Wu, & Xiang: We’re Not Mandarin, and We Have the Tens of Millions of Speakers To Prove It
Persian: We’re Not Arabic—We’re Not Even in the Same Language Family, for Crying out Loud!
