New from Panini Press: Sprachgeist Guides for the Linguist on the Go!—Part V
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:
Pirahã: It’s Prosody All the Way Down, Crooked Head!
Rapa Nui: Our Rongorongo Encryption Is so Secure, Even We Can’t Break It
Xhosa: Yes, Those Really Are Speech Sounds and Not Just Static in the Microphone
Coming Soon:
Haitian Creole: As Beautiful as French, but without the Académie, Front Rounded Vowels, Silent Letters, or the Snootiness
Serbo-Croatian: You Got Your Serbian; You Got Your Croatian; There’s Bosnian and Montenegrin. We Used to Have Some Slovenian, Slavonian, Dalmatian, and Illyric. It Comes in Cyrillic and Latin, but There Might Be Some Arabic or Even Some Glagolitic Laying Around. Wait, What Was the Question?
Also Available in the Constructed Languages Sub-Series:
Volapük: Esperanto for Losers
Esperanto: Suck It, Losers! We’ve Got Native Speakers!
Ido: Because Esperanto Was Getting Too Popular
Interlingua: If We Build a Better Auxlang, They Will Come. No, Really, This Time for Sure!
Loglan & Lojban: Committed to Logic and Rationality to the Point of Emotionally Splitting Our Community in Twain
