Delving deep into many linguistic oddities, Babel explains the extraordinary stories of the twenty most commonly spoken languages in the world. Trace the origins and track the rise of these languages while deciphering a bewildering array of scrips. This book presents the gaps in various languages vocabularies and charts loan words and inventive coinages. Discover why the Russian language doesn’t have a word for blue, how Turkish stopped borrowing words and why Arabic is the hardest language to learn. Utterly fascinating and compelling, Babel will give you a new perspective of the world and the way it speaks.
BABEL
By Gaston Dorren
