Latin: Story of a World Language

Name: Latin: Story of a World Language
Brand: Belknap Press
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hardcover – November 25, 2013

by Leonhardt, Jürgen

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ISBN-13: 9780674058071 ISBN-10: 0674058070

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Belknap Press

Binding

hardcover

Published

November 25, 2013

Weight

1.5 lbs

Dimensions

24.10×3.20×16.50 cm

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Latin: Story of a World Language by Leonhardt, Jürgen. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780674058071.

The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Jürgen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language", from antiquity to the present.