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 challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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