Empires of the word : a language history of the world / Nicholas Ostler.
Material type: TextLanguage: Publication details: New York : Harper Perennial, 2006.Description: xxi, 615 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780060935726 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliography an index.
The nature of language history --Languages by land --Languages by sea --Languages today and tomorrow.
An offbeat natural history of language takes readers from the educational and cultural innovators of Sumeria, to the resilience of Chinese, to the global spread of English, in a volume that offers linguistic perspectives on numerous past and present civilizations.
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