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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A quirky language-lovers tour of the twenty most-spoken languages in the world - what puts them a cut above the other six thousand?

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New. 2019 New If you were to master the twenty languages discussed in Babel, you could talk with three quarters of the world's population But what makes these languages stand out amid the world's estimated 6,500 tongues?Gaston Dorren delves deep into the linguistic oddities and extraordinary stories of these diverse lingua francas, tracing their origins and their sometimes bloody rise to greatness He deciphers their bewildering array of scripts, presents the gems and gaps in their vocabularies and charts their coinages and loans He even explains how their grammars order their speakers' worldviewCombining linguistics and cultural history, Babel takes us on an intriguing tour of the world, addressing such questions as how tiny Portugal spawned a major world language and Holland didn't, why Japanese women talk differently from men, what it means for Russian to be 'related' to English, and how non-alphabetic scripts, such as those of India and China, do the same job as our 26 letters Not to mention the… Read More