How long does it take to read The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language?
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal takes about 8 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 44 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1987. 476 pages, about 130,900 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The second edition of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language incorporates extensive new research in areas such as speech synthesis and recognition, acoustics, machine translation, natural language processing, endangered languages, language teaching and World English. In addition there is new and revised material on the number of speakers of languages, revised geopolitical data, new language distribution maps and a new table of world languages. The book has been redesigned to suit the needs of present-day readers and is printed in full colour for the first time.
Subjects: Dictionaries, Linguistics, Encyclopedias, Langage et langues, Dictionnaires, Linguistique
