Native tongues / Charles Berlitz
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TextPublication details: New York : Grosset & Dunlap, c1982Description: xi, 321 pages ; 23 cmISBN: - 448123363
- P 112 .B47 1982
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| GC PN 6014 .R58 1988 The Riverside anthology of literature / | GC PR 83 .C36 1944 Reading english literature / | GC P 106 .D67 1971 Psychology of language : a local habitation and a name / | GC P 112 .B47 1982 Native tongues / | GC P 121 .A36 1984 c.2 Linguistics : an introduction to language and communication / | GC P 123 .L56 1969 Linguistics : voice of america forum lectures / | GC P 2129.E5 S53 1983 Apropos! : communication et culture : un début / |
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.
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