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The Atlas of Unusual Languages - An Exploration of Language, People and Geography (Paperback)
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The Atlas of Unusual Languages - An Exploration of Language, People and Geography (Paperback)
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The ideal gift for anyone interested in language, geography and
people. We communicate through the spoken and written word and
language has evolved over the centuries. Many languages have
survived although only in small pockets throughout the world. This
book explores a selection of those languages. Did you know that
some people believe that the speakers of Burushaski, the language
of a distant valley below the Himalayas, are actually the
descendants of the soldiers of Alexander the Great? And that, even
though the Venetian language is not official in Venice, it is
spoken in several locations in Latin America? From 'language
isolates' such as Basque, spoken in Spain and France, and Ainu in
Japan and Russia, to language islands including a Welsh speaking
colony in Argentina-discover how geography shapes communication and
societies. What can we learn from the existence of Gutnish, a
dialect of the extinct Eastern Germanic Gothic, on several islands
of the Baltic Sea? And how widely spoken is Cornish? These and many
more intriguing linguistic questions are answered in this absorbing
exploration of lesser known languages.
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