by Gaston Dorren · C.H. Beck · tapa dura · ISBN 9783406766848
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«In 20 Sprachen um die Welt» is Gaston Dorren's popular linguistics essay, published by C.H. Beck in hardcover (400 pages, in German).
Three-quarters of humanity speak one of the twenty languages covered in this essay. Dorren explains the origin of these languages, their expansion and their scripts, and shows how grammar reflects the worldview of their speakers. It includes cases such as Portuguese, Vietnamese and Arabic.
German translation of the English original «Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages», by Juliane Cromme.
For those curious about languages, linguistics and cultural history; accessible reading with no prior knowledge required.
