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ISBN: 0007118716 - Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

Title:	Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Author:	Nicholas Ostler
Publisher:	Harper Perennial
Type:	Book / Paperback
Publication Date:	18 September, 2006
ISBN / ISBN-13:	0007118716 / 9780007118717
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An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history.

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