Native tongues / Charles Berlitz

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Grosset & Dunlap, c1982Description: xi, 321 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 448123363
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P 112 .B47 1982
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex Relegation Room Gen. Ed - CEAS GC P 112 .B47 1982 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000000967

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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