Chitchat : celebrating the world's languages
Título
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Chitchat : celebrating the world's languages
Jude. Isabella
Resumen
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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.
Chit chat
Fecha de publicación como intervalo
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2013
Descripción física
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44 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
Nota general
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Canadian author and illustrator.
Includes index.
Contenido
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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.
Término de la materia
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Language and languages.
Autor añadido
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Boake, Kathy.
Síntesis
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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.
ISBN
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9781554537877
Información de publicación
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Toronto, ON ; Tonawanda, NY : Kids Can Press, [2013]
| Biblioteca | Signatura topográfica | Tipo de material | Código de barras del documento | Estado |
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| Shauna May Seneca | 401 ISA | Book | 31929000043698 | Non-Fiction |