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| Description | If the history of languages has taught us anything, Nicholas Ostler argues, it is that no language - however populous its speakers, confident its culture and advanced its technology - has remained the linga franca indefinitely. As the technological and cultural dominance of America has consolidated the territorial achievements of the British Empire, the English language (aided by the predominantly Anglophone Internet) has apparently never had it so good. And yet the long-term dominance of English will inevitably, in due course, give way. Will English be displaced in world terms by a language such as Mandarin Chinese, which has been a great regional player since well before English emerged as an offshoot of Anglo-Saxon, French and Norse? | | Release Date | 2005 | | Author | Nicholas Ostler | | Format | Dimensions 15.9x24.0 cm
652 pages
book | | Publisher | HarperCollins | | Subject(s) | Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative |
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