Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Los remanentes de las lenguas bantúes en Cuba	Gema Valdés Acosta	Este libro es el primer intento en el mundo hispánico de constatar la procedencia bantú de vocablos que funcionan en Cuba, especialmente en la lengua ritual del Palo Monte a través de un trabajo de c…	OL12019582W
Wit and wisdom in Morocco	Edward Westermarck	A work dealing with Morocco by Professor Westermarck dedicated to Sir James Frazer should be sure of a favourable reception, though it may be fancied that its subject evokes far less interest in this…	OL1282730W
Tāksī	Khālid Khamīsī	Egypt; social life; author's memoirs; literary writings.	OL13653713W
My Fair Lady / Pygmalion	George Bernard Shaw,Alan Jay Lerner	The ancient Greeks tell the legend of the sculptor Pygmalion, who created a statue of a woman of such surpassing beauty that he fell in love with his own creation. Then Aphrodite, taking pity on this…	OL15013928W
Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers--Volume Nine	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,Joseph Conrad,Emily Brontë,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,James Fenimore Cooper	[Wuthering Heights](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21177W) / Emily Bronte Typhoon / Joseph Conrad Last of the Mohicans / James F. Cooper [The Yearling](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL111382W)…	OL15158482W
An introduction to regional Englishes	Joan C. Beal	This series provides introductions to the main areas of English language study. Volumes cover aspects of the history and structure of the language such as: syntax, phonology, morphology, regional and…	OL16013496W
Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume II (D-H)	Joan Houston Hall	A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities. Online index is at http://dare.wisc.…	OL16503694W
Daftar Leksikal 7 Dialek Brunei Darussalam	Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka Brunei	List of words in the 7 dialects of Brunei Darussalam: Brunei, Tutong, Belait, Murut, Kedayan, Dusun, and Bisaya	OL16550171W
Second dialect acquisition	Jeff Siegel	"What is involved in acquiring a new dialect - for example, when Canadian English speakers move to England or African American English-speaking children go to school? How is such learning different f…	OL16981404W
Kallimni Arabi Bishweesh Kallimni Arabi	Samia Louis	Kallimni ʻArabi bishweesh is part of a planned series of multi-level Egyptian Colloquial Arabic course books for adults, written by Samia Louis and developed at the International Language Institute (…	OL17558007W
A handbook of varieties of English	Edgar W. Schneider	2 v. : 25 cm. +	OL18321551W
Matematika dasar	Bana G. Kartasasmita	Indonesian and Kaidipang-North Sulawesi dialect dictionary.	OL19206073W
How to speak Brit	C. J. Moore	" The quintessential A to Z guide to British English-perfect for every egghead and bluestocking looking to conquer the language barrier Oscar Wilde once said the Brits have "everything in common with…	OL19996283W
Bidialectalism	Vicki Michael Anderson	"Pennsylvania Dutchified English, a little-studied German-influenced language variety spoken in south central Pennsylvania, is rapidly approaching extinction as speakers shift to the more standard re…	OL21366672W
Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect	William Barnes	Beautiful poems in the Dorset dialect. Quite comprehensible but containing a number of words which might not be understood outside Dorset. Barnes inspired Thomas Hardy to a large extent.	OL36133W
Innamincka talk	Gavan Breen	Innamincka Talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects is one of a pair of companion volumes on Yandruwandha, a dialect of the language formerly spoken on t…	OL3821892W
Gerusalemme liberata	Torquato Tasso	translated into English Spenserian verse from the Italian of Tasso : together with a life of the author, interspersed with translations of his verses to the Princess Leonora of Este, and a list of En…	OL502973W
Fables	Jean de La Fontaine	Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several v…	OL50348W
Diyarbakır Türkçesi	Mustafa Gazi	Turkish language; local dialects; Diyarbakır; Turkey.	OL5865115W
Doğu Karadeniz lehçeleri karşılaştırmalı sözlüğü	Müslüm Kabadayı	Turkish dialects; Eastern Black Sea Region; Turkey; dictionaries.	OL6008177W