Chitchat
Subtitle: celebrating the world's languages
By: written by Jude Isabella ; illustrated by Kathy Boake
Contributors: Boake, Kathy
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9781554537877
Subjects: Customs, Traditions, Anthropology; Social Science; Juvenile literature; JUVENILE NONFICTION; Language and languages; Language Arts
Other titles: Chit chat
Description: How did language come to be? Why can we speak, while cats and dogs can't? When, how, and where did our 7,000 world languages come from? Isabella looks at languages-- spoken, written and signed-- to find out where they came from and how they're changing.
Notes: Includes index.

930 Lexile.
Table of contents: title: Let's chitchat; title: Speak up!; title: Language is ...; title: How language came to be; title: Talking in (genetic) code; title: Language families; title: The sky is ... black; title: Language extinction; title: Languages in danger; title: Saving languages; title: How languages morph; title: Where do words come from?; title: Out with the old ...; title: ... and in with the new; title: Slanguistics; title: Invented languages; title: Written language; title: Which alphabet?; title: Unspoken languages; title: The last word.