For librarians who either order or catalog foreign-language books, this manual has been revised from its 1975 original. Sections cover the major European linguistic families: Germanic; Latin and the Romance languages; Celtic, Greek, and Albanian; Slavonic; Baltic; Finno-Ugrian; and other languages (Maltese, Turkish, Basque, Esperanto). Each section includes an example of the individual language, general characteristics, alphabet, phonetics, spelling, a brief grammar, a glossary, and a grammatical index (by word and word endings). For academic and larger public libraries.