Babel : around the world in twenty languages / Gaston Dorren.
Babel : around the world in twenty languages / Gaston Dorren.
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Publisher
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018.
Call Numbers
G 2019/0257
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Language
English
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Physical content
360 pages : illustrations, color maps, portraits, charts ; 23 cm
Content type
text
still image
cartographic image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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,...
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Publisher
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2018.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
A tour of the world's twenty most-spoken languages explores the history, geography, linguistics, and cultures that have been shaped by languages and their customs.
"English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 or so billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which...
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Babel : around the world in twenty languages / Gaston Dorren.
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General note
"First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Profile Books"--Title page verso.
Maps on end-papers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2018
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G 2019/0257
Record Identifier
74VKV03xEp3M
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV03xEp3M
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ISBN
9780802128799 (hardcover)
0802128793 (hardcover)
DDC
409
MMS ID
991024225299702626
