Words of the World
Subtitle: The Global Language System
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: December 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780745627472
Subjects: Communication Studies; Historical & comparative linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Linguistics; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Social Science; Sociology - General; Sociology; Philosophy; ENGLISH LANGUAGE_FOREIGN COUNTRIES; LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES_PHILOSOPHY; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Foreign countries; Communication; English language; Language and languages; Language policy
First sentence: The human species is divided into more than five thousand groups each of which speaks a different language and does not understand any of the others.