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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Main Author: Ostler, Nicholas (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2005]
Edition:1st American ed.
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