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A Grammar of Nese
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A History of the Scots Language
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Althochdeutsche Grammatik I: Phonologie Und Morphologie
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Althochdeutsche Grammatik II: Grundzüge Einer Deskriptiven Syntax
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American Language
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Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic: Rethinking the Origins
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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it—only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluen...
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Beginning Old English / Edition 2
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Caucasian Albania: An International Handbook
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Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age
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Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age
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Defining Creole
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English Begins at Jamestown: Narrating the History of a Language
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Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
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Global Language Justice
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Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers / Edition 2
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Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme-And Other Oddities of the English Language
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Historische Mehrsprachigkeit
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Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
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How Dead Languages Work
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have diffe...
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How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
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How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /How Language Began revolutionizes our understanding of the one tool that has allowed us to become the "lords of the planet." Mankind has a distin...
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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, revised and expanded edition
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution ...
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