The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel

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The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel

Publisher: Walker & Co | 2010 | ISBN: 0802717713 | English | MOBI+EPUB+PDF | 330 pages | 1.7+1.4+3 Mb


English is the world’s lingua franca-the most widely spoken language in human history. And yet, as historian and linguist Nicholas Ostler persuasively argues, English will not only be displaced as the world’s language in the not-distant future, it will be the last lingua franca, not replaced by another. Empire, commerce, and religion have been the primary raisons d’etre for lingua francas–Greek, Latin, Arabic have all held the position–and Ostler explores each through the lens of civilizations spanning the globe and history, from China and India to Russia and Europe…

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