An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history.
2 tulosta hakusanalla "Empires of the Word".
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Nicholas Ostler · ISBN 9780060935726
Julkaistu 2006 Kieli englanti nidottu
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...