Nicholas Ostler: Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling…