TY  - BOOK
AU  - McWhorter,John H.
TI  - The power of Babel: a natural history of language 
SN  - 0716744732
AV  - P140 .M34 2001
U1  - 417/.7 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Times Books
KW  - Historical linguistics
N1  - "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"
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol053/2001001702.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2001001702.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy031/2001001702.html
ER  -