Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

Nicholas Ostler

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

Nicholas Ostler

640 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it.Yet the history ...

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