num_pages: 340
description: An informative linguistic survey of the world's 2,796 languages and 5,000 dialects--both current and archaic--provides fascinating facts, comparisons, parallelisms, and other unusual discoveries about language
language: English
title: Native Tongues
titlecomplete: Native Tongues
genres: Linguistics, Language, History, Travel, Reference, Trivia, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 186
publisher: Grosset & Dunlap