Empires of the word a language history of the world
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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Format: | UnknownFormat |
Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
HarperCollins
2005
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Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
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Zusammenfassung: | 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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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | XXI, 615 S. Ill., Kt. |
ISBN: | 0066210860 0-06-621086-0 |