The Power of Babel (A Natural History Of Language)

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Book	The Power of Babel
Book Subtitle	A Natural History Of Language
Imprint	New York: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company
Year	2001
Author/Editor/Director	John H. McWhorter
ISBN ISSN	0-7167-4473-2
A/V	No
Book	Yes
Serial	No
Comic	No
Review	John McWhorter is a linguist at the University of California at Berkeley. His writing style is light, even entertaining, for a serious work intended for the intelligent general reader.... McWhorter takes the position that there was a single, first UR-language, spoken perhaps 150,000 years ago or so in East Africa. (Read more)
Reviewer	Paul Bartlett
Conlang	NA
Glossary	No
No Sample	No
Large Corpus	No
Submitted By	Paul Bartlett
Date Submitted	Sunday, July 07, 2002
Date Edited	Sunday, July 07, 2002
Date To Headline	Sunday, July 07, 2002