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Wie entsteht eine Sprache und wann verschwindet sie? Was war eigentlich das Schicksal des Lateinischen? Wann ist Englisch geschaffen worden? Werden in 200 Jahren alle Menschen auf der Erde Englisch or Chinesisch sprechen? Dies sind nur einige der faszinierenden Fragestellungen, denen das Buch Eine kurze Geschichte der Sprachen nachgeht. Es handelt von den historischen Bedingungen, die Sprachen formen, und von dem Einfluss, den Sprachen auf den Lauf der Geschichte haben. Das Buch beginnt mit einer Diskussion der Zeit der Jager und Sammler, in der es eine enorme Vielfalt an Sprachen gab....

This is an introduction to the history of languages, from the distant past to a glimpse at what languages may be like in the distant future. It looks at how languages arise, change, and ultimately vanish, and what lies behind their different destinies. What happens to languages, he argues, has to do with what happens to the people who use them, and what happens to people, individually and collectively, is affected by the languages they speak.
The book opens by examining what the languages are the hunter-gatherers might have spoken and the changes to language that took place when...

This is an introduction to the history of languages, from the distant past to a glimpse at what languages may be like in the distant future. It looks at how languages arise, change, and ultimately vanish, and what lies behind their different destinies. What happens to languages, he argues, has to do with what happens to the people who use them, and what happens to people, individually and collectively, is affected by the languages they speak.
The book opens by examining what the languages are the hunter-gatherers might have spoken and the changes to language that took place when...

No known language, including English, has achieved the success and longevity of Latin. French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian are among its direct descendants, and countless Latin words and phrases comprise the cornerstone of English itself. A Natural History or Latin tells its history from its origins over 2500 years ago to the present. Brilliantly conceived, popularizing but authoritative, and written with the fluency and light touch that have made Tore Janson's Speak so attractive to tens of thousands of readers, it is a masterpiece of adroit synthesis.
The book commences with a...