Babel: Around The World In Twenty Languages Gaston Dorren Profile Books Ltd Αγγλικά Βιβλία Health Family & Life Style

If You Were To Master The Twenty Languages Discussed In Babel Could Talk With Three Quarters Of World\ S Population But What Makes These Stand Out Amid Estimated 6 500 Tongues? Gaston Dorren Delves Deep Into Linguistic Oddities And Extraordinary Stories Diverse Lingua Francas Tracing Their Origins Sometimes Bloody Rise Greatness He Deciphers Bewildering Array Scripts Presents Gems Gaps Vocabularies Charts Coinages Loans Even Explains How Grammars Order Speakers\ Worldview Combining Linguistics Cultural History Takes Us On An Intriguing Tour World Addressing Such Questions As Tiny Portugal Spawned A Major Language Holland Didn\ T Why Japanese Women Differently From Men It Means For Russian Be \ Related\ English Non-Alphabetic Those India China Do Same Job Our 26 Letters Not Mention Conundrums Vietnamese Has Four Forms I\ Or Tamil Pronouns Keep Humans Deities Apart Will Change Way Look At We All Speak Σελίδες: 368 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0801 Διαστάσεις: 12 8X12 8Cm