Chitchat : celebrating the world's languages
Titre:
Chitchat : celebrating the world's languages
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Sommaire:
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.
EBSP_VARIANT_TITLE:
Chit chat
Date de publication comme intervalle:
2013
Description matérielle:
44 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
Note générale:
Canadian author and illustrator.
Includes index.
Table des matières:
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.
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Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):
9781554537877
Informations de publication:
Toronto, ON ; Tonawanda, NY : Kids Can Press, [2013]
