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Empires of the Word A Language History of the World

Paperback • 2006 • English

Empires of the Word A Language History of the World

By Nicholas Ostler

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About the book

An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. Yet the history of the world's great languages has rarely been examined. 'Empires of the Wo...Show more

Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics
Palaeography
Writing systems, alphabets

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ISBN

9780007118717

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

Empires of the Word A Language History of the World

Format

Paperback

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