Phew! I finally finished this book. I've been reading it for months now. Although, I was reading it on my iPod Touch the majority of the time.
Nicholas Ostler starts at the first known languages and ends with English, along with speculation about the future of languages. Some of the history is familiar--Norman French's near extinction of English--the history of Arabic and Chinese less so.
While the book is very well researched and informative, I found myself skipping ahead every so often. A good book but be careful and intersperse it with lighter fair.This book is not for recommended for anyone not really interested in diphthongs and glottal stops as Ostler goes into great detail about such details.
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