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![Empires Of The Word: A Language History Of The World by Nicholas Ostler](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCRENrcXdRPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--1c32d69a1a448f3082be7f5e336b7ca4c0ed8164/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Empires%20of%20the%20Word-%20A%20Language%20History%20of%20the%20World.jpg)
615 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780007118700
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 21 February 2005
Description
If the history of languages has taught us anything, Nicholas Ostler argues, it is that no language - however populous its speakers, confident its culture and advanced its technology - has remained the linga franca indefinitely. As the technologica...
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615 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780007118700
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 21 February 2005
Description
If the history of languages has taught us anything, Nicholas Ostler argues, it is that no language - however populous its speakers, confident its culture and advanced its technology - has remained the linga franca indefinitely. As the technologica...