This new edition of Colloquial Latvian has been completely rewritten to make learning Latvian easier and more enjoyable than ever before! Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Latvian.  Meer

The concern for the fast-disappearing language stocks of the world has arisen particularly in the past decade, as a result of the impact of globalization.  Meer

The concern for the fast-disappearing language stocks of the world has arisen particularly in the past decade, as a result of the impact of globalization.  Meer

Throughout most of the history of linguistics, the primacy of the spoken word over the written word has been virtually axiomatic. Scholars working at what is perceived as the core of linguistic science, on grammar, sociolinguistics, phonetics, phonology, have generally perceived the written word as merely the means of representing the true matter of linguistics, spoken language, with varying degrees of efficiency.  Meer