Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Ostler Nicholas

Author:Ostler, Nicholas [Ostler, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harper Collins, Inc.
Published: 2011-03-21T18:30:00+00:00

Suns can set and can come back again:

For us when once the short light has set

There is one night perpetual to be slept.

Catullus

* See Chapter 13. The six are English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German and French. There was a seventh, Dutch, which holds position 21 in the population league. Their imperial careers are reviewed in Chapters 10, 11 and 12.

* Contrast Alcuin, propagating his new standard for Latin in the ninth century, and working in quite the opposite direction: for the important mission then was to put the intellectual world back in touch with itself, and its own ancient traditions.

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