After Babel

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This collection of thirty short, very engaging chapters on linguistics and languages from around the world, masterfully balanced between the anecdotal and the incisive, is a genuine prize for scholars and beginners and will surely whet the appetite of anyone contemplating learning a foreign language or seeking deeper insights into the workings Chapters include: ¿¿ Speech and the Brain: We Know What We Don't Know, First writings. Sumerian, The Baby Linguist: Genius in the Crib Music: A Universal Language? , Interpreting and Translating, Sign Language, Machine translation, Language History, The Lingua Franca , Whistled Languages, Language, Thought, and Reality, Pidgins and Creoles, Astrolinguistics Endangered Languages, Language Engineering: China, Italian, Black English, Appalachia, Beautiful Basque (Euskara) , Vietnamese , Quechua, Korean, Filipino: Expanded Tagalog, Arabic , Chinese, Esperanto, Spanish and Portuguese, Ukrainian , Learning Another Language