Economist video. Where do languages actually come from? /
Languages originate from a monk's scribbles in a church, over 1,000 years ago, during a struggle with Latin passages. His writings are considered the first words ever written in Spanish, but they are closer to the Ragonese dialect. The desire to create heroic origin stories for languages is to...
| Format: | Video |
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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London, England :
The Economist,
2023.
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| Series: | Economist Video
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Languages originate from a monk's scribbles in a church, over 1,000 years ago, during a struggle with Latin passages. His writings are considered the first words ever written in Spanish, but they are closer to the Ragonese dialect. The desire to create heroic origin stories for languages is to impose order upon chaos, but literature requires the language to exist before poems and epics can be written. Languages are not like people with a birth date and birthplace, but rather like a species gradually diverging over time. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (2 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:01:40 |