Sun, Hongkai

AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE 140 LANGUAGES OF CHINA:
Speakers, Dialects, Linguistic Elements, Script and Distribution

2017 1-4955-0570-7
This 3 volume set of encyclopedias provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and detailed overview of these languages, which are spoken by an important portion of the world’s population and include language families of significant interest to the science of linguistics. It fills a major gap in the global linguistic knowledge available in English.

SPEAKERS OF THE NON-HAN LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS IN CHINA

2002 0-7734-7306-8
This monograph is a compilation of first-language speaker populations and other data of all the non-Han languages and dialects of China (including Taiwan) identified as of the end of 1998. It makes available for the first time in English information about these populations and contains the latest data on newly identified languages and dialects that have not yet been published. The information for each language includes: name(s) and dialects known; populations for each; locations of speakers in China and neighboring countries; intelligibility information; official nationality classification of the speakers; and alternate classification or status designations that have been proposed.