Global Mother Tongue
Subtitle: The Eight Flavours of English
Publisher: Vehicule Press
Published: September 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781550652154
Subjects: English Dialectology; English Language History; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Linguistics; Popular Culture - General; Social Science / Popular Culture; General; English language; Foreign elements; History; Variation
Description: For centuries, the English language has been raiding other languages for words. It has accumulated the largest vocabulary in the world, with only 30% of its words deriving from the original Anglo-Saxon stock. English, in all of its unique forms and permutations, is spoken by 1.6 billion people in the world - almost a third of the planet's population.