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books:

Empires Of The Word
Nicholas Ostler

Harpercollins, 2005

Creating Outsiders

Foundation for Endangered Languages, 2005

Ad Infinitum
Nicholas Ostler

HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2007

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

28 reviews
Nicholas Ostler

Harper Perennial, 2006

Wonderful, insightful introduction to the History of Major languages
Ostler's book is an attempt to provide an introductory history of many of the major languages of the world. He particularly focuses on languages that grew to become supranational, lingua francas, etc., and how and why they became so. While many of the languages he discusses are ones we'd expect, e.g. English, French, Spanish, Chinese, etc., Ostler also discusses international languages of the ...

Endangered Languages: What Role for the Specialist?: Proceedings of the Second FEL Conference
Nicholas Ostler

Foundation for Endangered Languages, 1998

Empires Of The Word
Nicholas Ostler

Harpercollins, 2005

Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin

12 reviews
Nicholas Ostler

Walker & Company, 2008

Companion of Empire
In 1492 Elio Antonio de Nebrija (the author of the Latin grammar most priests used to teach Latin in the "New" World) wrote that "always language was the companion of empire and followed it in such a way that jointly they began, grew, flourished; and afterward joint was the fall of both." Ad Infinitum is a continuation of Ostler's work in Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, ...