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on1028525722 |
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OCoLC |
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20181217002726.0 |
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180311t20182018nyuabcd b 001 0 eng d |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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YDX |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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rda |
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YDX |
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CDX |
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1028162888 |
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1028546564 |
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1028614702 |
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1077291132 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0802128793 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardcover) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780802128799 |
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(hardcover) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1028525722 |
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(OCoLC)1028162888 |
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(OCoLC)1028614702 |
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(OCoLC)1077291132 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
409 |
| Item number |
D716 |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
NFGA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Dorren, Gaston, |
| Relator term |
author. |
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374245 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Babel : |
| Remainder of title |
around the world in twenty languages / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Gaston Dorren. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Atlantic Monthly Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
2018. |
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©2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
360 pages : |
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illustrations, maps, portraits, charts ; |
| Dimensions |
23 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content Type Term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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still image |
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sti |
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rdacontent |
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cartographic image |
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cri |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Maps on end-papers. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction: twenty languages: half the world -- Vietnamese, 85 million: linguistic mountaineering -- Korean, 85 million: sound and sensibility -- Tamil, 90 million: a matter of life and death -- Turkish, 90 million: irreparably improved -- Javanese, 95 million: talking up, talking down -- Persian, 110 million: empire builders and construction workers -- Punjabi, 125 million: the tone is the message -- Japanese, 130 million: linguistic gender apartheid -- Swahili, 135 million: Africa's nonchalant multilingualism -- German, 200 million: an eccentric in central Europe -- French, 250 million: death to la différence -- Malay, 275 million: the one that won -- Russian, 275 million: on being Indo-European -- Portuguese, 275 million: punching above its weight -- Bengali, 275 million: world leaders in abugidas -- Arabic, 375 million: a concise dictionary of our Arabic -- Hindi-Urdu, 550 million: always something breaking us in two -- Spanish, 575 million: ¿Ser or estar? that's the question -- Mandarin, 1.3 billion: the mythical Chinese script -- Japanese revisited: a writing system lacking in system -- English, 1.5 billion: a special lingua franca?. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
A tour of the world's twenty most-spoken languages explores the history, geography, linguistics, and cultures that have been shaped by languages and their customs. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 or so billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Punjabi). [This book] whisks the reader on a delightful journey to every continent of the world, tracing how these world languages rose to greatness while others fell away, and showing how speakers today handle the foibles of their mother tongues. Whether exploring tongue-tying phonetics, complicated writing scripts, or mind-bending quirks of grammar, Babel vividly illustrates that mother tongues are like nations: each has its own customs and beliefs. Among many other things, Babel will teach you why modern Turks can't read books that are a mere seventy-five years old, what it means in practice for Russian and English to be relatives, and how Japanese developed separate "dialects" for men and women. Dorren lets you in on his personal trials and triumphs while studying Vietnamese, debunks ten widespread myths about Chinese characters, and discovers that Swahili became the lingua franca in a part of the world where people routinely speak three or more languages. Witty, fascinating and utterly compelling, Babel will change the way you look at and listen to the world and how it speaks."--Dust jacket. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Linguistic geography. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
380809 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Language and languages |
| General subdivision |
Variation. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
314821 |
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