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The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages Nicholas Ostler
The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages
Nicholas Ostler
In the twenty-first century, can we really take the dominance of English for granted? In their time, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit and Persian have each been world languages, sweeping the globe for centuries at a time. This title explores the rise of a linguistic diversity we could never before have imagined.
352 pages
| Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
| Lançado | 3 de novembro de 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9781846142161 |
| Editoras | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Páginas | 352 |
| Dimensões | 130 × 196 × 22 mm · 262 g |