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A Grammar of Khowar

Elena Bashir

University College London, 2025

A pioneering linguistic study documenting Khowar’s complex structure and historic oral tradition, shaped by centuries of cultural exchange in northern Pakistan.

Grammar of Khowar is the first comprehensive English-language study of Khowar, a unique Indo-Aryan language spoken in northern Pakistan. Drawing on over thirty years of field research, Elena Bashir provides a detailed snapshot of the language at a critical moment in its evolution, as increasing cultural and economic pressures accelerate linguistic change.

The book presents Khowar’s phonology, morphology, and syntax, alongside an in-depth analysis of how its grammatical structures shape the way speakers conceptualize the world. Rife with original example sentences—many sourced from oral texts recorded in multiple villages—this work preserves linguistic data that might otherwise be lost. A special appendix includes a thirty-page sample text in Khowar’s Perso-Arabic script, followed by a romanized transcription and English translation, offering an invaluable resource for scholars.

A critical contribution to South Asian linguistics, this book underscores the urgency of studying and preserving endangered mountain languages before they fade from use.

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Norsk, nordmenn og Norge 1

Textbook for Beginning Norwegian

Kathleen Stokker and Odd Haddal

University of Wisconsin Press, 1981

This introduction to Norwegian helps students acquire the basic units of vocabulary and structure and use that knowledge to learn about Norway and Norwegian culture.
Once students acquire the basic units of vocabulary and structure, they will use their knowledge of the language to learn about Norway. Students will learn about the cities of Oslo and Bergen, how to converse when eating in a Norwegian home or restaurant, and about Norwegian schools. Emphasis is also given to travel and communications, as well as the seasons of the year and Norwegian holidays.
The present edition of the text features a short grammar summary, a reference for review to assist in drawing together aspects of the grammar that are presented throughout the text. To aid in developing good pronunciation and intonation habits, as well as to internalize certain items of vocabulary and structure, most chapters contain a practice dialogue for students to practice repeatedly while studying the chapter.

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Norsk, nordmenn og Norge

Workbook

Louis E. Janus

University of Wisconsin Press, 1981

The Norsk, nordmenn og Norge series regards communication as the primary goal of language learning. This workbook provides meaningful structural practice in socially relevant and useful ways, combining entertaining activities with more traditional exercises.

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North American Icelandic

The Life of a Language

Birna Arnbjornsdottir

University of Manitoba Press, 2006

North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba and North Dakota and is the only version of Icelandic that is not spoken in Iceland. But North American Icelandic is a dying language with few left who speak it.North American Icelandic is the only book about the nature and development of this variety of Icelandic. It details the social and linguistic constraints of one specific feature of North American Icelandic phonology undergoing change, namely Flámæli, which is the merger of two sets of front vowels. Although Flámæli was once a part of traditional Icelandic, it was considered too confusing and was systematically eradicated from the language. But in North America, Flámæli use spread unchecked, allowing the rare opportunity of viewing the evolution of a dialect from its birth to its impending demise.

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Norwegian-English Dictionary

A Pronouncing and Translating Dictionary of Modern Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) with a Historical and Grammatical Introduction

Editor-in-Chief Einar Haugen

University of Wisconsin Press, 1974

For more than forty years, the Haugen Norwegian–English Dictionary has been regarded as the foremost resource for both learners and professionals using English and Norwegian. With more than 60,000 entries, it is esteemed for its breadth, its copious grammatical detail, and its rich idiomatic examples. In his introduction, Einar Haugen, a revered scholar and teacher of Norwegian to English speakers, provides a concise overview of the history of the language, presents the pronunciation of contemporary Norwegian, and introduces basic grammatical structures, including the inflection of nouns and adjectives and the declension of verbs.

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Prisma’s English-Swedish Dictionary

University of Minnesota Press, 1997

Newly revised single-volume edition!

Prisma's Abridged English-Swedish and Swedish-English Dictionary contains more than 85,000 of the most commonly used English and Swedish words and phrases. This long-awaited revision combines Prisma's best selling dictionaries of Swedish to English and English to Swedish in an easy-to-handle, abridged, single-volume edition.

Notes for the use of the dictionary are provided in both English and Swedish. It includes phonetic transcriptions of Swedish entries as well as codes for the inflection of Swedish nouns, adjectives, and verbs. This text is the standard dictionary for English and Swedish, the best selling dictionary of its kind in the world.

Fully revised and updated, this durable and compact dictionary is ideal for people who in the course of their studies, work, or travel need a concise dictionary of English and Swedish. The single-volume abridged dictionary will be an important addition to every bookstore's foreign language section.

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