John McWhorter
Author
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Language, in its seemingly infinite varieties, tells us who we are and where we come from. Many linguists believe that all of the world's languages—over 7,000 currently—emerged from a single, prehistoric source. While experts have not yet been able to reproduce this proto-language, most of the world's current languages can be traced to various language families that have branched and divided, spreading across the globe with migrating
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