Comrie Bernard (Ed.). The Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa

Routledge, 1990. — 261 p.Part of a linguistic series covering all major world languages, this volume contains essays that describe the languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa, including Sanskrit, Persian, Hindi-Urdu, Arabic, Hebrew, Tamil, Swahili and Bantu, Yoruba and the Semitic languages.