Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Nicholas Ostler
yhteensä 7 hakutulosta
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
An offbeat natural history of language takes readers from the educational and cultural innovators of Sumeria, to the resilience of Chinese, to the global spread of English, in a …
AD INFINITUM
An in-depth biography of the Latin language from its very beginnings to the present day from the widely acclaimed author of â??Empires of the Wordâ??.
EMPIRES OF THE WORD
An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history.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 Last Lingua Franca
A revelatory and exhilarating tour de force, Nicholas Ostler's The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages explores the rise of a linguistic diversity we could …
Passwords to Paradise
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."So opens the Gospel of John, an ancient text translated into almost every language, at once a …
Navlipi, Volume 2, A New, Universal, Script ("Alphabet") Accommodating the Phonemic Idiosyncrasies of All the World's Languages.
Navlipi, Volume 2, A New, Universal, Script ("Alphabet") Accommodating the Phonemic Idiosyncrasies of All the World's Languages. Volume 2, Another Look At Phonic and Phonemic …
Navlipi a New, Universal, Script ("alphabet") Accommodating the Phonemic Idiosyncrasies of All the World's Languages.: Volume 1, Another Look At Phoni
This book presents a new, universal script, denoted NAVLIPI, capable of expressing all the world's languages, from English and Arabic, to tonal languages such as Mandarin, to click …