Disclosure : This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

The Last Lingua Franca

Nick Ostler`s The Last Lingua Franca looks at the rise and fall of world languages, prompting the quesiton “in the twenty-first century, can we really take the dominance of English for granted?”.In their time, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit and Persian have each been world languages, sweeping the globe for centuries at a time. And yet they have all been displaced, just as Nicholas Ostler predicts English will be. What forces drive these linguistic currents? What characteristics do lingua francas share? And most importantly, how do they lose their power?In this revelatory book, Ostler explores the rise of a linguistic diversity that we could never before have imagined.

Related Products:

Babel: Around the World in 20 Languages La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World`s Most Enchanting Language The Story of English Languages Are Good For Us The English and Their Country May We Borrow Your Language?: How English Steals Words from All Over the World India – The rise of an Asian giant Ocean Currents World Map The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World Signed Copy Ocean Currents World Map A1 size Ocean Currents World Map A0 size Lingo: A Language Spotter`s Guide to Europe Default ThumbnailThe Atlas of Unusual Languages: An Exploration of Language, People and Geography The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt That`s The Way It Crumbles: The American Conquest of the English Language My Friend Jesus Christ The Teacher`s Guide to Grammar Magna Carta: The Foundation of Freedom 1215-2015 The Line of Beauty Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler Helming to Win Split Tooth Vila Franca das Naves Default ThumbnailS. Miguel – Vila Franca do Campo – Azores 33 Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases One World, Many Colours Spoken Here – Travels Among Threatened Languages The Languages of the World The Parakeeting of London Hello World: Bingo Tactics to Win Globish – How the English Language became the World`s Language Running The World: My World-Record Breaking Adventure to Run a Marathon in Every Country on Earth The Black Sea History Symbols of Power: Ten Coins that Changed the World The Story of the English Garden A Certain je ne Sais Quoi: Words We Pinched from Other Languages King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero Hello World: A Celebration of Languages and Curiosities Concise Compendium of the World`s Languages