Babel by Gaston Dorren
Around the World in Twenty Languages
A lively, accessible tour of twenty languages from around the world that blends linguistic history, structural explanation, and cultural context to show how tongues evolve, borrow, compete and sometimes disappear; the author pairs clear accounts of grammar, etymology and writing systems with travel anecdotes and interviews to illuminate dialectal variation, language politics and identity, and ultimately celebrates linguistic diversity while warning about language loss.
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