剧情简介：An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common histo...(展开全部)
作者：Nicholas Ostler
出版社：HarperPerennial
ISBN：9780007118717
