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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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  • "Empires of word"
  • "世界語言史"
  • "Shi jie yu yan shi"
  • "世界语言史"
  • "Language history of the world"

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  • "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."@en
  • "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."
  • "This text offers a 'natural history of languages' that recounts the ways in which one language has superseded another at different times in history. It shows that the language of the future will, like the languages of the past, be full of surprises."@en
  • "This unusual and authoritative natural history of languages narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another in the past, and what it is about - for example - Greek, Sanskrit, Mandarin Chinese and English that has led to their supremacy at different times."

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  • "Geschiedenis (vorm)"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "History"@en

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  • "语言帝国 : 世界语言史"
  • "Yu yan di guo : Shi jie yu yan shi"
  • "Empires of the world : a language history of the world"
  • "Empires of the word : a language history of the World"
  • "Empires of the Word : A Language History of the World"
  • "Empires of the word"
  • "Yu yan di guo : shi jie yu yan shi"
  • "Empires of the word : a language history of the world"@en
  • "Empires of the word : a language history of the world"
  • "Empires of the word a language history of the world"@en
  • "Empires of the word a language history of the world"

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