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The Power of Babel
A Natural History of Language

McWhorter, John H.
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BOOK SUMMARY
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.While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us of


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ISBN: 006052085X
Dewey Decimal: 417/.7
Library of Congress: 2002034592
Book Publisher: Harpercollins
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 336



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