The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages

ISBN-13: 9781846142161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str.

Nicholas Ostler

Opis

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.