Empires of the Word
Subtitle: A Language History of the World
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: June 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780060935726
Subjects: World - General; Language (General); History; History - General History; Language; Linguistics; Social History; History / World
First sentence: From the language point of view, the present population of the world is not six billion, but something over six thousand.