Description
Product ID: | 9780674059924 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Tamil |
Subtitle: | A Biography |
Authors: | Author: David Shulman |
Page Count: | 416 |
Subjects: | Language: history and general works, Language: history & general works, Sociolinguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Tamil |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Spoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil, emphasizing how its speakers and poets have understood the unique features of their language over its long history. |
Imprint Name: | The Belknap Press |
Publisher Name: | Harvard University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2016-09-26 |