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Article: Atlas of the Languages and Ethnic Communities of South Asia.(Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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Atlas of the Languages and Ethnic Communities of South Asia. By ROLAND J.-L. BRETON. Walnut Creek, Calif.: ALTAMIRA PRESS, 1997. Pp. 231. $65.
During the mid-1970s the International Center for Research on Bilingualism, located at Laval University, published two landmark works concerned with the language statistics and language geography of South Asia. The first of these was Kloss' and McConnell's Linguistic Composition of the Nations of the World, vol. 1: Central and Western South Asia (Quebec: Les Presses de 1'Universite Laval, 1975); and the second, Roland J.-L. Breton's Atlas geographique des langues et des ethnies de I'Inde et du Subcontinent: Bangladesh, ...