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An edition of Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (2005)

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HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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624

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Subjects

Historical linguistics, Language and languages, Language, Langage et langues, Linguistique historique
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Cover of: Empires of the Word
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
June 27, 2006, Harper Perennial
Paperback in English
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Cover of: Empires of the Word
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
June 27, 2006, Harper Perennial
in English
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Cover of: Empires of the Word
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
2005, HarperCollins Publishers
in English - 1st American ed.
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Empires of the Word
February 21, 2005, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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"From the language point of view, the present population of the world is not six billion, but something over six thousand."

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OL7261522M
ISBN 10
0007118708
ISBN 13
9780007118700
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49772
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