Burushaski: An Extraordinary Language in the Karakoram Mountains by Dick Grune was a Schoenhof’s find. This slim booklet of only 38 pages looked at this
Eunoia by Christian Bök is a book of chapters where each one limits itself to using a solitary vowel. Thus in each of the first
The Atlas of Unusual Languages by Zoran Nikolić was published on thick paper which belied its brevity of 240 pages. Thus as a short book
I obtained The Karelian Phoenix by Paul Austin as an interloan from Memorial University of Newfoundland. This book was published by the University Press of
I obtained A Language of Our Own: The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Métis by Peter Bakker from the Windsor
A History of the Chinese Language by Hongyuan Dong was exactly two hundred pages long and despite its brevity covered the evolution of Chinese from
Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language by Douglas R. Hofstadter has, since its publication in 1997, become a classic
I picked up Language and Social History: Studies in South African Sociolinguistics seven years ago when I was in Cape Town after my first trip to Tristan
Street Talk: The Language of Coronation Street was compiled by Jeffrey Miller and published in 1986. It was an alphabetical list of words and phrases used in the show.
The Chinese Typewriter: A History by Thomas S. Mullaney was perhaps the most exhaustive research of its kind. An academic book of 321 pages printed in