The Power Of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter

The Power Of Babel: A Natural History of Language

John McWhorter

327 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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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 remin...

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