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Tag info: language history
Includes: language history, Language--History, history of language, language-history (what?)
Tag and its aliases used 604 times by 140 users.![]()
Most often tagged language history
- The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson (18)
- Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler (13)
- The Story of English by Robert McCrum (13)
- The Stories of English by David Crystal (10)
- Made in America by Bill Bryson (10)
- A History of the English Language by Albert C. Baugh (9)
- The Unfolding of Language by Guy Deutscher (6)
- Speak: A Short History of Languages by Tore Janson (6)
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal (5)
- The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter (5)
- Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin by Nicholas Ostler (5)
- Lost Languages by Andrew Robinson (4)
- The Loom of Language by Frederick Bodmer (4)
- A Natural History of Latin by Tore Janson (4)
- Origins and Development of the English Language by Thomas Pyles (4)
- The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester (3)
- The Story of Writing by Andrew Robinson (3)
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal (3)
- A History of the French Language by Peter Rickard (3)
- Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World by John Man (3)


