Using a software programme developed in the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, this pioneering CD‐ROM gives professional linguists and students an analytical reference tool of quite remarkable versatility and sophistication.
It interactively facilitates definition of the structural features and characteristics of some 566 languages and dialects worldwide. Arabic exemplifies the exceptional breadth of coverage, with 20 dialects and variants profiled and analysed individually. Besides individual languages (e.g. Breton, Cornish, Gaelic, Manx, Welsh) there are profiles for language families and groups: Australian, Austronesian, Celtic … .. I failed to find any omission of languages known to...
