- Historical linguistics, Origin, Language and languages, Language and languages, origin
"There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. How did they all develop? What happened to the first language?".
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Warm, epic, contemporary and spare.
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- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- John H. McWhorter
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 328
- Publisher
- Perennial, Times Books
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060520854
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