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100 1 $aOstler, Nicholas.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00047385
245 10 $aEmpires of the word :$ba language history of the world /$cNicholas Ostler.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins Publishers,$c2005.
300 $axxi, 615 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 579-589) and index.
505 00 $tPrologue : a clash of languages --$g1.$tThemistocles' carpet --$g2.$tWhat it takes to be a world language; or, you never can tell --$g3.$tThe desert blooms : language innovation in the Middle East --$tFirst interlude : whatever happened to Elamite? --$tSecond interlude : the shield of faith --$tThird interlude : Turkic and Persian, outriders of Islam --$g4.$tTriumphs of fertility : Egyptian and Chinese --$g5.$tCharming like a creeper : the cultured career of Sanskrit --$g6.$tThree thousand years of solipsism : the adventures of Greek --$g7.$tContesting Europe : Celt, Roman, German and Slav --$g8.$tThe first death of Latin --$g9.$tThe second death of Latin --$g10.$tUsurpers of greatness : Spanish in the New World --$g11.$tIn the train of empire : Europe's language abroad --$g12.$tMicrocosm or distorting mirror? : the career of English --$g13.$tThe current top twenty --$g14.$tLooking ahead.
520 1 $a"The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Yet the history of the world's great languages has been very little told. Empires of the Word, by the wide-ranging linguist Nicholas Ostler, is the first to bring together the tales in all their glorious variety: the amazing innovations in education, culture, and diplomacy devised by speakers of Sumerian and its successors in the Middle East, right up to the Arabic of the present day; the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions; the charmed progress of Sanskrit from north India to Java and Japan; the engaging self-regard of Greek; the struggles that gave birth to the languages of modern Europe; and the global spread of English."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aHistorical linguistics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061192
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