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The power of Babel : a natural history of language / John H. McWhorter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Times Books, 2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: 327 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0716744732
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 417/.7 21
LOC classification:
  • P140 .M34 2001
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1 The First Language Morphs into Six Thousand New Ones -- 2 The Six Thousand Languages Develop into Clusters of Sublanguages -- 3 The Thousands of Dialects Mix with One Another -- 4 Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones -- 5 The Thousands of Dialects of Thousands of Languages All Develop Far Beyond the Call of Duty -- 6 Some Languages Get Genetically Altered and Frozen -- 7 Most of the World's Languages Went Extinct -- Epilogue: "Extra, Extra! The Language of Adam and Eve"
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Books Books Main Campus Library University of Eastern Africa, Baraton P 140 .M34 2001 c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

"A W.H. Freeman book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-315) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 The First Language Morphs into Six Thousand New Ones -- 2 The Six Thousand Languages Develop into Clusters of Sublanguages -- 3 The Thousands of Dialects Mix with One Another -- 4 Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones -- 5 The Thousands of Dialects of Thousands of Languages All Develop Far Beyond the Call of Duty -- 6 Some Languages Get Genetically Altered and Frozen -- 7 Most of the World's Languages Went Extinct -- Epilogue: "Extra, Extra! The Language of Adam and Eve"

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