剧情简介：Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the engaging self-regard of Greek and to the struggles t...(展开全部)
作者：Nicholas Ostler
出版社：Harper Perennial
ISBN：9780060935726
