Cover of The power of Babel

The power of Babel

by John H. McWhorter

2001 327 pages eng

"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. How did they all develop? What happened to the first language?". "In this tour of territory too often claimed by stodgy grammarians, linguistics profe…

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