Chitchat : celebrating the world's languages
Title:
Chitchat : celebrating the world's languages
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
How did language come to be? Why can we speak, while cats and dogs can't? When, how, and where did our 7,000 world languages come from? Isabella looks at languages-- spoken, written and signed-- to find out where they came from and how they're changing.
Other Title:
Chit chat
Year Published:
2013
Physical Description:
44 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
Note:
Canadian author and illustrator.
Includes index.
Contents:
Let's chitchat -- Speak up! -- Language is... -- How language came to be -- Talking in (genetic) code -- Language families -- The sky is...black -- Language extinction -- Languages in danger -- Saving languages -- How languages morph -- Where do words come from? -- Out with the old... -- ...and in with the new -- Slanguistics -- Invented languages -- Written language -- Which alphabet? -- Unspoken languages -- The last word.
Grade Interest level:
4-7
Subject:
Added Author:
ISBN:
9781554537877
Publisher:
Toronto, ON ; Tonawanda, NY : Kids Can Press, [2013]
