Native tongues /
Berlitz, Charles
Native tongues / Charles Berlitz - New York : Grosset & Dunlap, c1982 - xi, 321 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
1. There are 2,796 languages in the world -- 2. How languages started -- 3. How languages spread and decline -- 4. 1066 and the french invasion of english -- 5. How you ca turn thousands of english words into french, spanish, italian, german, portuguese, or dutch -- 6. Language, gender and sex -- 7. Language incidents that changed history -- 8. Rallying cries of conquest, defiance, or prayer -- 9. Words of love and admiration -- 10. Insults and profanity around the world.
It is a book that would offer an overview of how language has affected the peoples of the world all through history and does so today more than ever.
448123363
LANGUAGES -- FOREIGN LANGUAGES
P 112 .B47 1982
Native tongues / Charles Berlitz - New York : Grosset & Dunlap, c1982 - xi, 321 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
1. There are 2,796 languages in the world -- 2. How languages started -- 3. How languages spread and decline -- 4. 1066 and the french invasion of english -- 5. How you ca turn thousands of english words into french, spanish, italian, german, portuguese, or dutch -- 6. Language, gender and sex -- 7. Language incidents that changed history -- 8. Rallying cries of conquest, defiance, or prayer -- 9. Words of love and admiration -- 10. Insults and profanity around the world.
It is a book that would offer an overview of how language has affected the peoples of the world all through history and does so today more than ever.
448123363
LANGUAGES -- FOREIGN LANGUAGES
P 112 .B47 1982