languages world institute linguistics moscow languages world publication languages world institute linguistics moscow languages world encyclopedic multivolume publication volume devoted one particular genetic areal group languages articles written russian leading authorities russia countries depending volume specializing respective languages articles volumes languages world written accordance standard typologically oriented template imposed language thus descriptions languages comparable one another articles specific languages consist following main divisions sociolinguistic characterization phonology phonetics detailed morphosyntactic characterization account peculiarities lexicon dialectal system books series fundamental studies reference sources books addressed linguists historians ethnographers interested language studies far five volumes published first one uralic languages published 1993 nauka available time 1997 publishing house indrik published four volumes turkic languages including ancient modern languages known science 542 pp mongolic tingusic korean japanese 407 pp paleoasiatic languages including chukchi kamchatkan yeniseian eskimo aleut copper island aleut russian mixed language nivkh yukagir ainu burushaski 230 pp iranian languages vol 1 southwestern group volumes 2 3 follow 206 pp 1998 following volumes expected published iranian languages vol 2 dardic nuristani languages caucasian languages volumes branches indo european currently worked interested obtaining book requested contact andrej kibrik institute linguistics russian academy sciences b kislovskij per 1 12 russia kibrik iling msk su fax 7 095 290 05 28 working problem get books foreign scholars list interested would make work easier prices books range 20 depending size specific book