Chitchat : celebrating the world's languages

Titre
Chitchat : celebrating the world's languages

Jude. Isabella

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.

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.

Terme de vedette-matière
Language and languages.

Vedette secondaire auteur
Boake, Kathy.

Résumé
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.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9781554537877

Informations de publication
Toronto, ON ; Tonawanda, NY : Kids Can Press, [2013]


BibliothèqueNuméro de rayonType de documentCode à barres du documentStatut
Shauna May Seneca401 ISABook31929000043698Non-Fiction