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100 1 $aOstler, Nicholas.
245 10 $aEmpires of the word :$ba language history of the world /$cNicholas Ostler.
246 30 $aLanguage history of the world
250 $a1st Harper Perennial ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarper Perennial,$c2006.
300 $axxi, 615 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c21 cm
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500 $aOriginally published as hbk.: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, ©2005. 1st American ed.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 579-589) and index.
505 0 $aThe nature of language history: Themistocles' carpet ; What it takes to be a world language; or, you never can tell -- Languages by land: The desert blooms : language innovation in the Middle East ; First interlude : Whatever happened to Elamite? ; Second interlude : The shield of faith ; Third interlude : Turkic and Persian, outriders of Islam ; Triumphs of fertility : Egyptian and Chinese ; Charming like a creeper : the cultured career of Sanskrit ; Three thousand years of solipsism : the adventures of Greek ; Contesting Europe : Celt, Roman, German and Slav ; The first death of Latin -- Languages by sea: The second death of Latin ; Usurpers of greatness : Spanish in the New World ; In the train of empire : Europe's languages abroad ; Microcosm or distorting mirror? : the career of English -- Languages today and tomorrow: The current top twenty ; Looking ahead.
520 $aAn offbeat natural history of language takes readers from the educational and cultural innovators of Sumeria, to the resilience of Chinese, to the global spread of English, in a volume that offers linguistic perspectives on numerous past and present civilizations.
650 0 $aLanguage and languages.
650 0 $aHistorical linguistics.
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650 6 $aLangage et langues.
650 6 $aLinguistique historique.
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