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He neatly summarizes a number of ongoing debates about how languages change and spread and where necessary shows intimate famil... Read More
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linguistic, spread, many, subject and english. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 612 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 11 2023.
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Also looks at chinese and small section on semitic languages
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A bit long if not deeply interested in languages and the mix of original language and english translations is inconsistent and so a touch annoying
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This book is not a linguistic history
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Also of interest were reasons a language did not become dominant such as german in western europe where it failed to dislodge derivatives of latin
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A graph of each language family would have been most helpful
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I could not find the list of most spoken languages the author alluded to
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First the population of the west was far greater
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Additionally the germans were no longer barbarians having been in contact with rome for centuries
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