"Take a tour of 21 of the world's most commonly spoken languages!"--Back cover.

This innovative introduction outlines the structure and distribution of the world’s languages, charting their evolution over the past 200,000 years. Balances

KAT LOMB (1909-2003) was one of the great polyglots of the 20th century. A translator and one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world, Lomb worked i

This book is a history of human speech from prehistory to the present. It charts the rise of some languages and the fall of others, explaining why some survive

The only textbook of its kind, An Introduction to the Languages of the World is designed to introduce beginning linguistics students, who now typically start th