Empires Of The Word: A Language History Of The World by Nicholas Ostler

Empires Of The Word: A Language History Of The World

Nicholas Ostler

615 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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If the history of languages has taught us anything, Nicholas Ostler argues, it is that no language - however populous its speakers, confident its culture and advanced its technology - has remained the linga franca indefinitely. As the technologica...

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