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Cambodian : Khmer /
Cambodian is in many respects a typical Southeast Asian language, whose syntax at least on first acquaintance seems to approximate that of any SVO pidgin. On closer acquaintance, however, because of the richness of its idioms, the language seems to be a forbiddingly alien form of "Desesperanto&...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Central Khmer |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
Ã2011.
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| Colección: | London Oriental and African language library ;
v. 16. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Cambodian is in many respects a typical Southeast Asian language, whose syntax at least on first acquaintance seems to approximate that of any SVO pidgin. On closer acquaintance, however, because of the richness of its idioms, the language seems to be a forbiddingly alien form of "Desesperanto"--A language of which one can read a page and understand every word individually, and have no inkling of what the page was all about. Like many of the languages of its genetic (Austroasiatic) family, its basic root vocabulary seems to consist largely of sesquisyllabic or iambic words, although there are ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 425 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027285027 9027285020 1283280507 9781283280501 9786613280503 661328050X |