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Babel : around the world in twenty languages /

English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it. Only one in five people does. Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 or so billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He...

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Main Author:	Dorren, Gaston (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2018]
Edition:	First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Subjects:	Linguistic geography. Language and languages > Variation. Philology. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative.

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