The Last Lingua Franca

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Ostler Klappentext Nicholas Ostler is the author of Empires of the World: A Language History of the World and Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin . He studied Greek, Latin and Philosophy at the University of Oxford and holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT. With a working knowledge of twenty-six languages, Nicholas now runs an institute for the protection of endangered languages. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Ostler, Ostler Nicholas
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.11.2011
• EAN: 9781846142161
• ISBN: 978-1-84614-216-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book; Society & social sciences, Linguistics, Society and Social Sciences