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Language and History: Which One is Betraying the Other?

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Feb, 2014

The author of Empires of the Word, Nicholas Ostler is the founder of the Foundation for Endangered Languages and an IT and language technology consultant at the European Commission. In his book he aims for the world’s languages to have a history, not just the major languages, but all languages, from the perspective that all languages have a history, but few of them are documented.

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Rami Abu Shihab

Independent scholar and writer specializing in literary criticism, cultural studies, and post-colonial discourse. He holds a PhD in Modern Literary Criticism (discourse and critical theory) from the Institute of Arab Research and Studies, Cairo. His major books include Constructing the Symbolic Character in the Arabic Novel in Jordan 1967-2003 and Structure of the Folktale: Model and Reception.

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The author of Empires of the Word, Nicholas Ostler is the founder of the Foundation for Endangered Languages and an IT and language technology consultant at the European Commission. In his book he aims for the world’s languages to have a history, not just the major languages, but all languages, from the perspective that all languages have a history, but few of them are documented.

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