The Last Lingua Franca

Autor*innen

• Nicholas Ostler

Parameter

• 330 Seiten
• 12 Lesestunden

• Esoterik & Religion
• Handel
• Historisches Thema
• Sachbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften

Mehr zum Buch

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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Einband: Paperback