num_pages: 466
description: Answers all your questions about language...even the ones you never thought to ask.How did...• the discovery of a mysterious Persian mummy lead to a murder investigation?• the word "dord" come to appear in English, and then disappear again?• a border collie named Rico learn 200 words?What is...• the loudest language?• the worst dictionary ever?• the most difficult word to translate?When did...• the United States surpass Britain in having the most speakers of English?• the first linguist live?• Mayor Willie Brown declare "Esperanto Day" in San Francisco?Who was...• the oldest first language learner?• the creator of the most successful invented language?• the discoverer of the brain's "language center"?Where is...• the country that is the most linguistically diverse?• the most newspare-reading country?• the school with the most renowned faculty of linguistics?Why did...• Johannes Goropius Becanus regard Dutch as the oldest language?• native speakers of Navajo work as radio-telegraphists in WWII?• a Zimbabwean bank director speak for 36 hours straight?
language: English
title: Limits of Language: Almost Everything You Didn't Know You Didn't Know about Language and Languages
publisher: William James & Company