The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel by Nicholas Ostler

The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel

Nicholas Ostler

352 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
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Nicholas Ostler challenges our assumption that English will continue to dominate as the global lingua franca. Drawing on his encyclopaedic knowledge of world languages and their history, Ostler reveals that just as past great languages like Latin ...

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