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<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>Omniglot multilingual book store</title> <meta name="description" content="Language courses dictionaries, grammars, phrasebooks and other materials for many different languages" />  <script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-WB7PSHBG');</script>  <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://www.omniglot.com/images/logos/omniglot_thumbnail.jpg" /> <meta property="og:type" content="https://www.facebook.com/pg/Omniglot-100430558332117/posts/" /> <link href="/styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script src="https://the.gatekeeperconsent.com/cmp.min.js" data-cfasync="false"></script> <script async src="//www.ezojs.com/ezoic/sa.min.js"></script> <script> window.ezstandalone = window.ezstandalone || {}; ezstandalone.cmd = ezstandalone.cmd || []; </script></head> <body> <a id="top"></a> <div id="header">  <noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-WB7PSHBG" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript>  <p><a href="/index.htm"><img src="/images/logos/header_omniglot.png" width="600" height="70" alt="Omniglot - the online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages" /></a></p> <ul> <li><a href="/index.htm">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/writing/index.htm">Alphabets</a></li> <li><a href="/conscripts/index.htm">Constructed scripts</a></li> <li><a href="/writing/languages.htm">Languages</a></li> <li><a href="/language/phrases/phraseindex.htm">Phrases</a></li> <li><a href="/language/numbers/index.htm">Numbers</a></li> <li><a href="/language/ml.htm">Multilingual Pages</a></li> <li><a href="/search.htm">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/news/index.htm">News</a></li> <li><a href="/about.htm">About</a></li> <li><a href="/contact.htm">Contact</a></li> </ul></div> <div id="bodybox"> <span style="text-align:center;"><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-162"></div> <script> ezstandalone.cmd.push(function() { ezstandalone.showAds(162); }); </script></span><div id="body"> <p><img src="../images/books/stack1.gif" width="88" height="95" class="rightfloat" alt="Books" /> </p> <h1>Omniglot book store</h1> <p>A collection of books about writing, language, linguistics and related topics gathered together in one place for your convenience. By buying something here you'll be helping to support this site. </p> <h3>Writing systems, written language, calligraphy and reading</h3> <p><a href="writing/index.htm">Writing systems</a>, <a href="writing/egyptian.htm">Ancient Egyptian</a>, <a href="writing/arabic.htm">Arabic</a>, <a href="writing/chinese.htm">Chinese</a>, <a href="writing/greek.htm">Greek</a>, <a href="writing/hebrew.htm">Hebrew</a>, <a href="writing/mayan.htm">Mayan</a>, <a href="writing/ogham.htm">Ogham</a>, <a href="writing/runic.htm">Runes</a>, <a href="writing/shorthand.htm">Shorthand</a>, <a href="writing/numbers.htm">Numbers and numerals</a>, <a href="writing/calligraphy.htm">Calligraphy</a>, <a href="writing/punctuation.htm">Punctuation</a>, <a href="writing/reading.htm">Reading</a> </p> <h3>Language and languages</h3> <p><a href="language/origins.htm">Origins of language</a>, <a href="language/general.htm">Language and languages</a>, <a href="language/learning.htm">Learning languages</a>, <a href="language/phrases.htm">Idioms</a>, <a href="language/extinction.htm">Language extinction</a>, <a href="language/polyglossia.htm">Bilingualism / Multilingualism</a>, <a href="language/translation.htm">Translation and Interpretation</a>, <a href="language/algonquian.htm">Algonquian languages</a>, <a href="language/celtic.htm">Celtic languages</a>, <a href="language/english.htm">English</a>, <a href="language/germanic.htm">Germanic languages</a>, <a href="language/romance.htm">Romance languages</a>, <a href="language/slavic.htm">Slavic languages</a>, <a href="language/turkic.htm">Turkic languages</a>, <a href="language/conlangs.htm">Constructed languages</a> </p> <h3>Linguistics</h3> <p><a href="linguistics.htm">Linguistics</a>, <a href="phonetics.htm">Phonetics & Phonology</a>, <a href="archaeology.htm">Paleolinguistics</a> </p> <h3>Language learning materials (courses, dictionaries, etc)</h3> <p>For popular languages, such as French, Spanish and German, numerous courses and other materials are available, and for these languages I have selected materials I know to be good and/or that have received good reviews. For lesser-studied languages, I have listed all the materials I can find. </p> <p><a href="language/afrikaans.htm">Afrikaans</a>, <a href="language/albanian.htm">Albanian</a>, <a href="language/amharic.htm">Amharic</a>, <a href="language/arabic.htm">Arabic</a>, <a href="language/azeri.htm">Azerbaijani</a>, <a href="language/indonesia.htm#balinese">Balinese</a>, <a href="language/basque.htm">Basque</a>, <a href="language/bengali.htm">Bengali</a>, <a href="language/bosnian.htm">Bosnian</a>, <a href="language/breton.htm">Breton</a>, <a href="language/bulgarian.htm">Bulgarian</a>, <a href="language/burmese.htm">Burmese/Myanmar</a>, <a href="language/cambodian.htm">Cambodian</a>, <a href="language/cantonese.htm">Cantonese</a>, <a href="language/catalan.htm">Catalan</a>, <a href="language/cherokee.htm">Cherokee</a>, <a href="language/chinese.htm">Chinese</a>, <a href="language/classicalchinese.htm">Classical Chinese</a>, <a href="language/cornish.htm">Cornish</a>, <a href="language/cree.htm">Cree</a>, <a href="language/croatian.htm">Croatian</a>, <a href="language/czech.htm">Czech</a>, <a href="language/danish.htm">Danish</a>, <a href="language/persian.htm#dari">Dari</a>, <a href="language/dutch.htm">Dutch</a>, <a href="language/estonian.htm">Estonian</a>, <a href="language/finnish.htm">Finnish</a>, <a href="language/french.htm">French</a>, <a href="language/georgian.php">Georgian</a>, <a href="language/german.htm">German</a>, <a href="language/gothic.htm">Gothic</a>, <a href="language/greek.htm">Greek (Modern)</a>, <a href="language/gujarati.htm">Gujarati</a>, <a href="language/hawaiian.htm" title="ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi">Hawaiian</a>, <a href="language/hebrew.htm">Hebrew</a>, <a href="language/hindi.htm">Hindi</a>, <a href="language/hmong.htm">Hmong</a>, <a href="language/southernmin.htm">Hokkien</a>, <a href="language/hungarian.htm">Hungarian</a>, <a href="language/icelandic.htm">Icelandic</a>, <a href="language/indonesia.htm">Indonesian</a>, <a href="language/irish.htm">Irish (Gaelic)</a>, <a href="language/italian.htm">Italian</a>, <a href="language/japanese.htm">Japanese</a>, <a href="language/indonesia.htm#javanese">Javanese</a>, <a href="language/kazakh.htm">Kazakh</a>, <a href="language/korean.htm">Korean</a>, <a href="language/kurdish.htm">Kurdish</a>, <a href="language/kyrgyz.htm">Kyrgyz</a>, <a href="language/lao.htm">Lao</a>, <a href="language/latin.htm">Latin</a>, <a href="language/latvian.htm">Latvian</a>, <a href="language/lithuanian.htm">Lithuanian</a>, <a href="language/macedonian.htm">Macedonian</a>, <a href="language/malayalam.htm">Malayalam</a>, <a href="language/maltese.php">Maltese</a>, <a href="language/chinese.htm#mandarin">Mandarin Chinese</a>, <a href="language/manx.htm">Manx (Gaelic)</a>, <a href="language/maori.htm" title="Te Reo Māori">Māori</a>, <a href="language/mayan.htm">Mayan</a>, <a href="language/mongolian.htm">Mongolian</a>, <a href="language/nahuatl.htm">Nahuatl</a>, <a href="language/norwegian.htm">Norwegian</a>, <a href="language/occitan.htm">Occitan</a>, <a href="language/slavic.htm#ocs">Old Church Slavonic</a>, <a href="language/oldenglish.htm">Old English</a>, <a href="language/oldnorse.htm">Old Norse</a>, <a href="language/pashto.htm">Pashto</a>, <a href="language/persian.htm">Persian/Farsi</a>, <a href="language/polish.htm">Polish</a>, <a href="language/portuguese.htm">Portuguese</a>, <a href="language/punjabi.htm">Punjabi</a>, <a href="language/rapanui.htm" title="Vananga rapa nui">Rapa Nui</a>, <a href="language/romanian.htm">Romanian</a>, <a href="language/russian.htm">Russian</a>, <a href="language/samoan.htm">Samoan</a>, <a href="language/gaelic.htm">Scottish Gaelic</a>, <a href="language/scots.htm">Scots</a>, <a href="language/serbian.htm">Serbian</a>, <a href="language/chinese.htm#shanghainese">Shanghainese</a>, <a href="language/sicilian.htm">Sicilian</a>, <a href="language/tolkien.htm">Sindarin</a>, <a href="language/sinhala.htm">Sinhala</a>, <a href="language/sioux.htm">Sioux (Lakota/Dakota)</a>, <a href="language/slovak.php">Slovak</a>, <a href="language/slovenian.php">Slovenian</a>, <a href="language/somali.htm">Somali</a>, <a href="language/slavic.htm#sorbian">Sorbian</a>, <a href="language/spanish.htm">Spanish</a>, <a href="language/swahili.htm">Swahili</a>, <a href="language/swedish.htm">Swedish</a>, <a href="language/tagalog.htm">Tagalog</a>, <a href="language/southernmin.htm">Taiwanese</a>, <a href="language/persian.htm#tajik">Tajik</a>, <a href="language/tamil.htm">Tamil</a>, <a href="language/thai.htm">Thai</a>, <a href="language/tibetan.htm">Tibetan</a>, <a href="language/turkish.htm">Turkish</a>, <a href="language/ukrainian.htm">Ukrainian</a>, <a href="language/urdu.htm">Urdu</a>, <a href="language/uyghur.htm">Uyghur</a>, <a href="language/uzbek.htm">Uzbek</a>, <a href="language/vietnamese.htm">Vietnamese</a>, <a href="language/welsh.htm">Welsh</a>, <a href="language/xhosa.htm">Xhosa</a>, <a href="language/yiddish.htm">Yiddish</a>, <a href="language/yoruba.htm">Yoruba</a>, <a href="language/zulu.htm">Zulu</a> </p> <h3>Language learning software</h3> <p><a href="multi-language.htm">Multilingual language-learning software</a><br /> <a href="language/software.htm">Find the best language programs</a> </p> <h3>Constructed languages</h3> <p><a href="language/esperanto.htm">Esperanto</a>, <a href="language/klingon.htm">Klingon</a>, <a href="language/tolkien.htm">Tolkien's languages (Quenya, Sindarin, etc)</a> </p> <h3>Books translated into many different languages</h3> <p><a href="fiction/alice.htm">Alice in Wonderland</a>, <a href="fiction/asterix.htm">Asterix</a>, <a href="fiction/harrypotter.htm">Harry Potter</a>, <a href="fiction/tolkien.htm">Lord of the Rings</a>, <a href="fiction/tintin.htm">Tintin</a>, <a href="fiction/pooh.htm">Winnie the Pooh</a> </p> <p><a 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