The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages - Nicholas Ostler - Books - Penguin Books Ltd - 9781846142161 - November 3, 2011
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The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages

Nicholas Ostler

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

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.

352 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 3, 2011
ISBN13 9781846142161
Publishers Penguin Books Ltd
Pages 352
Dimensions 130 × 196 × 22 mm   ·   262 g
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