Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
English is the world language, except that most of the world doesnt speak itonly one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the worlds 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali). Babel whisks the reader on a delightful journey to every continent of the world, tracing how these world languages rose to greatness while others fell away and showing how speakers today handle the foibles of their mother tongues. Whether showcasing tongue-tying phonetics or elegant but complicated writing scripts, and mind-bending quirks of grammar, Babel vividly illustrates that mother tongues are like nations: each has its own customs and beliefs that seem as self-evident to those born into it as they are surprising to the outside world.Among many other things, Babel will teach you why modern Turks cant read books that are a mere 75 years old, what it means in practice for Russian and English to be relatives, and how Japanese developed separate dialects for men and women. Dorren lets you in on his personal trials and triumphs while studying Vietnamese in Hanoi, debunks ten widespread myths about Chinese characters, and discovers that Swahili became the lingua franca in a part of the world where people routinely speak three or more languages. Witty, fascinating and utterly compelling, Babel will change the way you look at and listen to the world and how it speaks.
yazar | Gaston Dorren |
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Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 13.97 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı | 17 Aralık 2019 |
28 Ekim 2011 Kolektif 29 Ekim 2011 Additional Contributors WADE H MCCREE 18,9 x 0,3 x 24,6 cm Mdpi AG 18,9 x 0,2 x 24,6 cm 1 Ocak 2017 ERWIN N GRISWOLD 28 Şubat 2018 18,9 x 0,6 x 24,6 cm 3 Ocak 2017 18,9 x 0,4 x 24,6 cm ROBERT H BORK 18,9 x 0,5 x 24,6 cm 30 Ekim 2011 15 x 0,5 x 22 cm
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Sürüm ayrıntıları
yazar | Gaston Dorren |
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isbn 10 | 0802147801 |
isbn 13 | 978-0802147806 |
Yayımcı | GROVE PR |
Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 13.97 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages | 17 Aralık 2019 |
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