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The History of Languages

Paperback • 2011 • English

The History of Languages

By Tore Janson

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About the book

This is an introduction to the history of languages, from the distant past to a glimpse at what languages may be like in the distant future. It looks at how languages arise, change, and ultimately vanish, and what lies behind their different destinies. What happens to languages, he argues, has to do with what happens to the people who use them, and what happens to people, individually and collectively, is affected by the languages they speak. The book opens by examining what languages the hunter...Show more

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9780199604296

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

The History of Languages

Format

Paperback

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