Latin - Story of a World Language

Informationen zum Autor Jürgen Leonhardt is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Tübingen. Klappentext The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Jürgen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language", from antiquity to the present. Zusammenfassung The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Jürgen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language", from antiquity to the present.

Product details

• Authors: Jurgen Leonhardt, Jürgen Leonhardt
• Assisted by: Kenneth Kronenberg (Translation), Kronenberg Kenneth (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9780674659964
• ISBN: 978-0-674-65996-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book; Latin, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Language: history & general works, Language: history and general works