Babel: around the world in twenty languages
If you were to master the 20 languages discussed in Babel you could chat to more than half the world's population. Actually, you could talk to another quarter of the world, who speak them as second languages. As he did in Lingo, Gaston Dorren delves deep into the linguistic oddities and extraor...
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| Zusammenfassung: | If you were to master the 20 languages discussed in Babel you could chat to more than half the world's population. Actually, you could talk to another quarter of the world, who speak them as second languages. As he did in Lingo, Gaston Dorren delves deep into the linguistic oddities and extraordinary stories of these global tongues, tracing their origins and tracking their sometimes bloody rise to greatness. He listens to their distinctly un-English sounds and deciphers their bewildering array of scripts, presents the gems and gaps in their vocabularies and charts their inventive coinages and surprising loans. He explains the oddities of their grammars, which order their speakers' worldview but often appear bafflingly complex to outsiders. Learn why Russian has no word for blue, how Turkish stopped borrowing words, and why Arabic is possibly the hardest global language to learn. Look into the future of Chinese script and re-examine the Latin alphabet's gory past. Consider the difficulties of having four forms for 'I' as in Vietnamese, and the questions that arise from the way Tamil pronouns keep humans and deities apart. Witty, fascinating and utterly compelling, Babel will change the way you look at the world and how it speaks |
| Beschreibung: | 360 Seiten Illustrationen, Portraits 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781781256411 1781256403 9781781256404 |
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| adam_text | Contents Introduction................................................................................... 9 Twenty languages: half the world 20 Vietnamese 185 million ........................................................ 15 Linguistic mountaineering 19 Korean I 85 million................................................................ 35 Sound and sensibility 18 Tamil I 90 million................................................................... 53 A matter of life and death 17 Turkish I 90 million................................................................ 67 Irreparably improved 16 |avanese | 95 million ............................................................. 83 Talking up, talking down 15 Persian 1110 million.............................................................. 95 Empire builders and construction workers 14 Punjabi 1125 million............................................................... 113 The tone is the message 13 lapanese 1130 million............................................................ 127 Linguistic gender apartheid 12 Swahili 1135 million ............................................................... 139 Africa’s nonchalant multilingualism 11 German 1200 million ..............................................................157 An eccentric in Central Europe
10 French 1250 million.............................................................. 171 Death to la différence 9 Malay 1275 million ................................................................ 187 The one that won 8 Russian I 275 million ................................................................203 On being Indo-European 7 Portuguese | 275 million ..........................................................217 Punching above its weight 6 Bengali | 275 million ................................................................233 World leaders in abugidas 5 Arabic 1375 million .................................................................. 253 A Concise Dictionary of Our Arabic 4 Hindi-Urdu I 550 million...........................................................269 Always something breaking us in two 3 Spanish I 575 million................................................................285 ¿Ser or estar? That’s the question 2 Mandarin 11.3 billion...............................................................299 The mythical Chinese script 2b ļapanese revisited ................................................................ 316 A writing system lacking in system 1 English 11.5 billion .................................................................. 325 A special lingua franca? Sources and further reading.....................................................343 Acknowledgements....................................................................348 Photo credits.................. 350 Index
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