The Last Lingua Franca: English Until The Return Of Babel

Author: Nicholas Ostler

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Price : 39.95 AUD
ISBN : 9781846142154
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint : Allen Lane
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Weight (g) : 0.603
Publication date : 01 January 2011
Dimensions : 240mm X 162mm X 32mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Intends to challenge our assumption that English continues to dominate as the global lingua franca. This book reveals that just as past great languages like Latin and Sanskrit have died out, so English will follow.

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Nicholas Ostler is the author of the critically acclaimed Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World. He studied Greek, Latin and Philosophy at the University of Oxford and holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT. With a working knowledge of twenty-six languages, Nicholas now runs an institute for the protection of endangered languages, an international organization that provides funding and support to document and revive dying languages. He lives in Bath.