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John McWhorter, “THE POWER OF BABEL: A Natural History of Language”, 2001.

 

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.

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