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

615 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

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Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From ...

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informative 100%
challenging 75%
reflective 37%
adventurous 12%

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medium 42%

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