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Toronto, Kids Can Press, 2013.
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| Description |
44pBlue Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
How did language come to be? Why can we speak, while cats and dogs can't? When, how, and where did our 7,000 world languages come from? Isabella looks at languages-- spoken, written and signed-- to find out where they came from and how they're changing.
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| Contents |
Let's chitchat
Speak up!
Language is...
How language came to be
Talking in (genetic) code
Language families
The sky is...black
Language extinction
Languages in danger
Saving languages
How languages morph
Where do words come from?
Out with the old...
...and in with the new
Slanguistics
Invented languages
Written language
Which alphabet?
Unspoken languages
The last word.
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| Standard Number |
9781554537877 Hb.
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