Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of
the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of
words that binds communities together and makes possible both the
living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny
resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the
engaging self-regard of Greek and to the struggles that gave birth
to the languages of modern Europe, these epic achievements and more
are brilliantly explored, as are the fascinating failures of once
"universal" languages. A splendid, authoritative, and remarkable
work, it demonstrates how the language history of the world
eloquently reveals the real character of our planet's diverse
peoples and prepares us for a linguistic future full of
surprises.
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