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Empires of the word : (Record no. 9390)

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fixed length control field 02437pam a2200301 a 4500
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 2005046010
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field DLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20190729102932.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 050317s2005 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2005046010
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0066210860
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency DLC
Transcribing agency DLC
Modifying agency DLC
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC)
Holding library EY8Z
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number P107
Item number .O88 2005
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 409
Edition number 22
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Ostler, Nicholas.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Empires of the word :
Remainder of title a language history of the world /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Nicholas Ostler.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st American ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. HarperCollins Publishers,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c2005.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxi, 615 p. :
Other physical details ill., maps ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (p. 579-589) and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Publisher description: The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. Yet the history of the world's great languages has been very little told. Empires of the Word, by the wide-ranging linguist Nicholas Ostler, is the first to bring together the tales in all their glorious variety: the amazing innovations in education, culture, and diplomacy devised by speakers of Sumerian and its successors in the Middle East, right up to the Arabic of the present day; the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions; the charmed progress of Sanskrit from north India to Java and Japan; the engaging self-regard of Greek; the struggles that gave birth to the languages of modern Europe; and the global spread of English. Besides these epic achievements, language failures are equally fascinating: Why did German get left behind? Why did Egyptian, which had survived foreign takeovers for three millennia, succumb to Mohammed's Arabic? Why is Dutch unknown in modern Indonesia, though the Netherlands had ruled the East Indies for as long as the British ruled India? As this book splendidly and authoritatively reveals, the language history of the world shows eloquently the real character of peoples; and, for all the recent technical mastery of English, nothing guarantees our language's long-term preeminence. The language future, like the language past, will be full of surprises.
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650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Historical linguistics.
948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN)
Series part designator, SPT (RLIN) u173849
949 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC)
h EY8Z
i 33039000751320
903 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT C, LDC (RLIN)
a 9390
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    Library of Congress Classification     Stacks 06/19/2018   P107 .O88 2005 33039000751320 07/27/2023 1 Book

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