Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages by Gaston Dorren

Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

Gaston Dorren

361 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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If you were to master the twenty languages discussed in Babel, you could talk with three quarters of the world's population. But what makes these languages stand out amid the world's estimated 6,500 tongues?Gaston Dorren delves deep into the lingu...

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