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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (original 2005; edition 2006)

by Nicholas Ostler

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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.

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P107.O88Language and Literature › Philology. Linguistics › Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar

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