The Last Lingua Franca

Autori

• Nicholas Ostler

Parametri

• 330 pagine
• 12 ore di lettura

• Business & Management
• Commercio
• Saggistica
• Scienze sociali
• Tema stórico

Maggiori informazioni sul libro

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.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2011

(In brossura)