Dear Contributors,
After seven years of waiting, the Encyclopedia is finally
out and copies are being distributed!!
Here is the full citation:
Garry, Jane, and Carl Rubino. 2001. Facts About the World's Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages: Past and Present. New York/Dublin: H. W. Wilson Press.
Thank you again for all your help and patience with the volume,
Sample Articles on the Web (copyright HW Wilson, Jane Garry and Carl Rubino):
Ancient
Greek and Modern
Greek (Brian Joseph)
Bemba
(Debra Spitulnik and Mubanga E. Kashoki)
Slovene (Marc
L Greenberg)
| Achenese | Mark Durie | University of Melbourne |
| Afrikaans | Paul Roberge | University of North Carolina |
| Akan | Samuel Obeng | Indiana University |
| Akkadian | Ben Foster | Yale |
| Albanian | Gary Bevington | Northeastern Illinois University |
| Amharic | Monica Devens | University of Washington |
| Arabic | Michael Carter | New York University |
| Aramaic/Syriac | Robert Hoberman | State University of New York, Stony Brook |
| Arapesh | Lise Dobrin | University of Chicago |
| Armenian | John Greppin | Cleveland State |
| Assamese | Colin Paul Masica, Sanjib Baruah | University of Chicago (CM); Bard College (SB) |
| Awadhi | Braj Kachru | University of Illinois |
| Aymara | Martha Hardman | Center for Latin American Studies |
| Azerbaijani | Lars Johanson | Universitaet Mainz |
| Balinese | Adrian Clynes | Brunei Darussalam |
| Balochi | Carina Jahani | Uppsala University |
| Bambara see Maninka | ||
| Basque | Larry Trask | University of Sussex |
| Belorussian | Raymond Miller | Bowdoin College |
| Bengali | Tanmoy Bhattacharya | University College London |
| Bemba | Debra Spitulnik | Emory University |
| Bhojpuri | Shaligram Shukla | Georgetown |
| Biblical Hebrew | Gary Rendsburg | Cornell |
| Bikol | Malcolm Mintz | Murdoch U; U Western Australia |
| Bugis | Roger Tol | Royal Institute of Linguistics |
| Bulgarian | Ernest Scatton | SUNY Albany |
| Burmese | F. K. Lehman | University of Illinois |
| Cantonese (see Yue) | ||
| Caribbean Creole English | Ronald Kephart | University of North Florida |
| Catalan | Natalia Diaz-Insense | XX |
| Cebuano | John Wolff | Cornell |
| Cherokee | Bill Pulte | SMU |
| Chichewa | Sam Mchombo | UC Berkeley |
| Chinese | Charles Li | UC Santa Barbara |
| Chinese-Classical | David Prager Branner | University of Minnesota |
| Chinese-Gan | Laurent Sagart | La Trobe |
| Chinese-Mandarin- see Mandarin | ||
| Chinese-Min | David Prager Branner | University of Minnesota |
| Chinese-Xiang see Xiang | ||
| Chinese-Wu see Wu | ||
| Coptic | Antonio Loprieno | UCLA |
| Czech | Charles Townsend | Princeton |
| Dagaare | Adams Bodomo | The University of Hong Kong |
| Danish | Thomas Lundskoer-Nielson | University College, London |
| Dutch-Flemish | Theo Janssen | Free University of Amsterdam |
| Egyptian | Antonio Loprieno | UCLA |
| English | Jon Erickson | Universitaet zu Koeln |
| Eskimo (see Yup'ik) | ||
| Etruscan | Larissa Bonfante | New York University |
| Ewe | Felix Ameka | Leiden |
| Finnish | Erika Mitchell | Cornell |
| French | Cynthia Fox | Albany |
| Fula | Carole Paradis | Universite Laval |
| Futa Jalon (see Pulaar) | ||
| Galician | Henrique Monteagudo | Univ. Santiago de Compostela |
| Gan | Laurent Sagart | La Trobe |
| Ge'ez | Monica Devens | University of Washington |
| Georgian | Karina Vamling | University of Lund |
| German | Terence McCormick | University of Connecticut |
| Gikuyu | Kimani Njogu | Kenyatta University |
| Gilyak (see Nivkh) | ||
| Gondi | Roseanne Pelletier | University of Connecticut |
| Gothic | Charles Barrack | University of Washington |
| Greek (Ancient) | Brian Joseph | Ohio State |
| Greek (Modern) | Brian Joseph | Ohio State |
| Guarani | Maura Velazquez-Castillo | University of Wisconsin Green Bay |
| Gujarati | P. J. Mistry | CSU Fresno |
| Gusii | Lee Bickmore | University at Albany |
| Haitian | Flore Zephir | University of Missouri |
| Hakka | Anne Yue | University of Washington |
| Hausa | Paul Newman | Indiana University |
| Hiligaynon | David Zorc | Independent |
| Hindi-Urdu | Michael Shapiro | University of Washington |
| Hittite | Kenneth Shields | Millersville University |
| Hungarian | Robert Hetzron | UC Santa Barbara |
| Ibibio | Okon Essien | University of Calabar |
| Igbo | Victor Manfredi and Ejike Eze | Boston University |
| Ilocano | Carl Rubino | UC Santa Barbara |
| Irish | James McCloskey | UC Santa Cruz |
| Italian | Lori Repetti | SUNY Stoney Brook |
| Japanese | Tim Vance | Connecticut College |
| Javanese | Hein Steinhauer | Leiden |
| Kabyle | Larry Clark | Indiana University |
| Kam | Jerold Edmonson | University of Texas |
| Kamba | Beatrice Mulula | Ohio State University |
| Kannada | Shikaripur Sridhar | SUNY Stony Brook |
| Kanuri, Yerwa | John Hutchinson | Boston University |
| Kapampangan | Hiroaki Kitano | Aichi University of Education |
| Kashmiri | Braj Kachru | University of Illinois |
| Kazakh | Lars Johanson | Universitaet Mainz |
| Khmer | Robert Headley | XX |
| Kikongo | Yeno Matuka | Ball State University |
| Kikongo-Kituba | Salikoko Mufwene | University of Chicago |
| Kinyarwanda | Alexandre Kimenyi | CSU Sacramento |
| Konkani | Rocky Miranda | U. Minnesota |
| Korean | Young-Mee Yu Cho | Stanford |
| Kyrgyz | Lars Johanson | Universitaet Mainz |
| Kurdish | Geoff Haig and Ludwig Paul | University of Kiel |
| Lakota | David S. Rood | University of Colorado |
| Lao | Thomas Gething | University of Washington |
| Latin | Rex Wallace | UMASS Amherst |
| Latvian | Lalita Muizniece | Western Michigan University |
| Lingala | Salikoko Mufwene | University of Chicago |
| Lithuanian | Jules Levin | University of California |
| Luba-Lulua | Mpunga wa Ilunga | CILTADE |
| Luo | Ben Blount | University of Georgia |
| Luganda | Francis Katamba | University of Lancaster |
| Macedonian | Victor Friedman | University of Chicago |
| Magahi | Rakesh Bhatt | University of Tennessee |
| Madurese | Alan M. Stevens | CUNY Queens College |
| Maithili | Yogendra Yadava | Royal Nepal Academy |
| Malagasy | Ed Keenan, Roger Rabenilaina | UCLA/University of Antananarivo |
| Malay-Indonesian | Hein Steinhauer | Leiden |
| Malayalam | Rodney Moag | University of Texas, Austin |
| Maltese | Manwel Mifsud | University of Malta |
| Mandarin Chinese | Xiaonong Zhu | Hong Kong Polytechnic |
| Maninka-Bambara | Jessica Barlow | San Diego State |
| Manipuri | Shobhana Chelliah | University of North Texas |
| Marathi | Frank Southworth | University of Pennsylvania |
| Maya | Gary Bevington | Northeastern Illinois |
| Meithei (see Manipuri) | ||
| Mende | David Dwyer | Michigan State |
| Minangkabau | Ismet Fanany | Deakin University, Australia |
| Modern Hebrew | Monica Devens | University of Washington |
| Mongolian | Robert Binnick | University of Toronto |
| Moore | Norbert Nikiema | Universite de Ouagadougou |
| Nama | Wilfrid Haacke | University of Namibia |
| Nahuatl | Frances Karttunen | University of Texas |
| Navajo | Margaret Field | San Diego State |
| Nepali | Manindra K. Verma | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Nivkh | Johanna Mattissen |
University of Cologne (Koeln) |
| Norwegian | John Weinstock | University of Texas |
| Nung (Tay-Nung) | Peter Ross | Australian National University |
| Occitan | Thomas Field | University of Maryland |
| Oriya | Subhadra Ramachandran | University of Ottawa |
| Oromo | Cynthia Robb Clamons | Hamline U? |
| Pali | John Peterson | Universitaet Munchen |
| Pangasinan | Carl Rubino | UC Santa Barbara |
| Pashto | Igor Inozemtsev | U Chicago; U St. Petersburg |
| Persian | John Perry | University of Chicago |
| Phoenician/Punic | Charles Krahmalkov | University of Michigan |
| Polish | Katarzyna Dziwirek | University of Washington |
| Polynesian Languages | Jeff Marck | Australian National University |
| Portuguese | Cristina Schmitt | Michigan State University |
| Pulaar | Fallou Ngom | University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign |
| Punjabi | Tej Bhatia | Syracuse University |
| Pwo Karen (Sgaw) | Masahiko Kato | National Museum of Ethnology |
| Quechua | Serafin Colonel Molina | University of Pennsylvania |
| Rajasthani | J. D. Smith | Cambridge |
| Romani | Ian Hancock | University of Texas |
| Romanian | Charles M. Carlton | University of Rochester |
| Rundi | Patrick Bennett | University of Wisconson, Madison |
| Russian | Tom Beyer | Middlebury College |
| Sango | W. J. Samarin | U Toronto |
| Sanskrit | Michael E. J. Witzel | Harvard |
| Santali | Norman Zide | University of Chicago |
| Serbo-Croatian | Wayles Browne | Cornell |
| Sesotho | Katherine Demuth | Brown |
| Shan | David Solnit | University of Michigan |
| Sindhi | Jennifer Cole | University of Illinois, Urbana |
| Shona | Hazel Carter | University of Wisconson, Madison |
| Sinhala | Sunil Kariyakarawana | XX |
| Siraiki | Christopher Shackle | University College London |
| Slovak | David Short | University College London |
| Slovene | Marc Greenberg | University of Kansas |
| Sogdian | Yutuka Yoshida | Kobe City University of Foreign Studies |
| Somali | John Saeed | Trinity College, University of Dublin |
| Sotho | Katherine Demuth | Brown University |
| Spanish | Louis Lopez | Cornell |
| Sukuma-Nyamwezi | Herman Batibo | University of Botswana |
| Sumerian | Daniel Snell | University of Oklahoma |
| Sundanese | Abigail Cohn | Cornell |
| Swahili | Kimani Njogu | Kenyatta University |
| Swati | Faik-Nzuji Clementine | ACLA Unite d'Anthropologie |
| Swedish | Kersti Borjars | University of Manchester |
| Tachelhit (see Tamazight) | ||
| Tagalog | Videa de Guzman | University of Calgary |
| Tajiki | John Perry | University of Chicago |
| Tamazight | Ali Alalou | Columbia University |
| Tamil | Sanford Steever | XX |
| Tatar | Larry Clark | Indiana University |
| Tay (see Nung) | ||
| Telugu | Roseanne Pelletier | University of Connecticut |
| Thai | Alexander Robertson Coupe | Australian National University |
| Tibetan | Christopher I. Beckwith | Indiana University |
| Tigrinya | Tesfay Tewolde | |
| Tiv | William Leben | Stanford |
| Tocharian | Douglas Adams | University of Idaho |
| Tok Pisin | Suzanne Romaine | Merton College |
| Tswana | Karen Mistry | CSU Fresno |
| Tumbuka | Lupenga Mphande | Ohio State University |
| Turkish | Robert Underhill | San Diego State |
| Turkmen | Lars Johanson | Universitaet Mainz |
| Ukrainian | Andrij Hornjatkevye | University of Alberta |
| Umbundu | Thilo Schadeberg | Leiden |
| Uyghur | Adrienne Dwyer | University of Mainz Germany |
| Urdu | Tahsin Siddiqi | University of Michigan |
| Uzbek | Lars Johanson | Universitaet Mainz |
| Vietnamese | Dinh-Hoa Nguyen | SIU Center for Vietnamese Studies |
| Waray Waray | Carl Rubino | UC Santa Barbara |
| Warlpiri | Angela Terrill | Australian National University |
| Welsh | Nick Kibre | UC Santa Barbara |
| Wolaitta | Azeb Amha | Leiden |
| Wolof | Omar Ka | University of Maryland, Baltimore |
| Wu Chinese | P. J. Rose | Australian National University |
| Xhosa | Laura Downing | University of British Columbia |
| Xiang Chinese | You Rujie | Fudan University |
| Yi | David Bradley | La Trobe University |
| Yiddish | Paul Glasser | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research |
| Yoruba | Akinbiya Akinlabi | Rutgers University |
| Yue | Anne Yue | University of Washington |
| Yup'ik | Carl Rubino and George Charles | UC Santa Barbara; University of Alaska |
| Zhuang-Bouyei | Jerold Edmondson | University of Texas |
| Zulu | Sandra Sanneh | Yale |