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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 will be the last lingua franca, not replaced... read more
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- Indian Ocean
- Iran
- China
- Central Asia
- South Africa
- Usa
- Sri Lanka
- France
- Germany
- Spain
- Islam
- Rome
- United Kingdom
- Khorasan
- Egypt
- Anatolia
- Swahili
- Syriac
- Sinhala
- Mt
- Britain
- North Africa
- Malaysia
- Italy
- Bukhara
- Hungary
- Samarkand
- Afrikaans
- Carthage
- Pacific
- Tagalog
- Tajikistan
- Singapore
- Persia
- Southeast Asia
- Netherlands
- Poland
- North America
- Canada
- Siberia
- Tanzania
- Australia
- Greece
- Palestine
- Theravada
- Uyghur
- Bengal
Authors & Contributors edit
- Nicholas Ostler (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 420.9
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