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Your first book choice is by Nicholas Evans, an Australian academic and one of the leading figures in language documentation. Please tell us more about Dying Words.. This book is a history of world languages which focuses on the small languages that make up about 96% of all spoken languages but are spoken by only about 4% of the world’s population.
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We simply don't know how language originated. We suspect that some type of spoken language developed between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago, well before written language (about 5,000 years ago). Yet, among the traces of earlier periods of life on earth, we never find any direct evidence or artifacts relating to the speech of our distant ancestors ...
Dec 17, 2011 · It is not a book about historical linguistics, it is a book about the history of languages, placed firmly in the framework of political and social history. The book proceeds to discussion of how language itself might have evolved, through the identification of language families, through the development of individual languages, and finally to ...
- Tore Janson
Jan 1, 1996 · Books. Origin Of Language. Roy Harris. A&C Black, Jan 1, 1996 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 332 pages. Public debate about language in the English-speaking world during the nineteenth century turned on the issue of how language began. The notion that language was a divine gift to humanity, not shared by lower creatures, was supported by the ...
The origins of language The suspicion does not appear improbable that the progenitors of man, either the males or females, or both sexes, before they had acquired the power of expressing their mutual love in articulate language, endeavoured to charm each other with musical notes and rhythm. Darwin (1871)
Sep 1, 2003 · Paperback : 240 pages. ISBN-10 : 186189080X. ISBN-13 : 978-1861890801. Item Weight : 12 ounces. Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.8 x 9 inches. Best Sellers Rank: #6,920,329 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books) #18,989 in Linguistics Reference. #45,908 in Foreign Language Reference. #703,345 in History (Books)
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