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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language PDF

159 Pages·2003·14.42 MB·English
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There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us of the variety within the species that speaks t
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