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Babel : around the world in twenty languages / Gaston Dorren. by Dorren, Gaston, author. Subjects Linguistic geography.   Language and languages -- Variation. ISBN:  0802128793 9780802128799 Description:  360 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, charts ; 23 cm Edition:  First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Contents:  Introduction: twenty languages: half the world -- Vietnamese, 85 million: linguistic moutaineering -- Korean, 85 million: sound and sensibility -- Tamil, 90 million: a matter of life and death -- Turkish, 90 million: irreparably improved -- Javanese, 95 million: talking up, talking down -- Persian, 110 million: empire builders and construction workers -- Punjabi, 125 million: the tone is the message -- Japanese, 130 million: linguistic gender apartheid -- Swahili, 135 million: Africa's nonchalant multilingualism -- German, 200 million: an eccentric in central Europe -- French, 250 million: death to la différence -- Malay, 275 million: the one that won -- Russian, 275 million: on being Indo-European -- Portuguese, 275 million: punching above its weight -- Bengali, 275 million: world leaders in abugidas -- Arabic, 375 million: a concise dictionary of our Arabic -- Hindi-Urdu, 550 million: always something breaking us in two -- Spanish, 575 million: ¿Ser or estar? that's the question -- Mandarin, 1.3 billion: the mythical Chinese script -- Japanese revisited: a writing system lacking in system -- English, 1.5 billion: a special lingua franca?.   Copy/Holding information Call No. Collection Status Location   P375 .D67 2018 Circulating Books Checked In St. Clair County Community College Library Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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