Here I present: John McWhorter, “THE POWER OF BABEL: A Natural History of Language”, 2001.
INTRODUCTION.
The book consists three-hundred twenty-seven (327) pages of seven (7) chapter, with Introduction & Epilogue listed BELOW.
CHAPTER.
#0. Introduction.
#1. The First Language Morphs into Six Thousand New Ones.
#2. The Six Thousand Languages Develop into Clusters of Sublanguages.
#3. The Thousands of Dialects Mix with One Another.
#4. Some Languages are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones.
#5. The Thousands of Dialects of Thousands Languages all Develop far Beyond the Call of Duty.
#6. Some Languages Get Genetically Altered and Frozen.
#7. Most of the World’s Languages Went Extinct.
EPILOGUE: Extra, Extra! The Language of Adam & Eve.
BENEATH is schematic diagram of language, creole, intertwined for Dutch & German from the book.
