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352 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780060520854
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publication date: 07 January 2003
Description
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 remin...
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352 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780060520854
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publication date: 07 January 2003
Description
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 remin...