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100 _aMcWhorter, John H.
100 _eAuthor
245 _aThe Power of Babel
245 _bA Natural History of Language
245 _cJohn H. McWhorter
260 _aU.S.A.
260 _bTimes Books
260 _c2001
300 _a327tr.
300 _bhardcover, illustration
300 _c24 cm
520 _aThere are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. How did they all develop? What happened to the first language? In this irreverent tour of territory too often claimed by stodgy grammarians, linguistics professor John McWhorter ranges across linguistic theory, geography, history, and pop culture to tell the fascinating story of how thousands of very different languages have evolved from a single, original source in a natural process similar to biological evolution... The first book written for the layperson about the natural history of language, The Power of Babel is a dazzling tour de force that will leave readers anything but speechless.
650 _aLanguage and culture
650 _aNon-Fiction Book
650 _aHistory
856 4 _uhttps://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/16618/4.jpg
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911 _aNguyễn Thị Kim Phượng
957 _a250508TBN
999 _c16469
_d16469