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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language is a 2002 non-fiction book by American linguist John McWhorter. The book provides an overview of the then-recent research in the field of linguistics, focusing primarily on how languages have evolved and will continue to evolve over time. The author celebrates the diversity amongst the Earth's ...
A fact from The Power of Babel appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 September 2024 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the author of The Power of Babel says that speakers of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish are all speaking the same language?
2001: The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ISBN 0-06-052085-X; 2003: Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority ISBN 1-592-40001-9; 2003: Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care ISBN 1-592-40016-7; 2005: Defining Creole ISBN 0-195-16669-8
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Dorren has achieved a modicum of international success, with Lingo being published in 12 different languages [3] and Babel in 15. [4] He also developed an app called The Language Lovers Guide to Europe, [5] but it is no longer available. Dorren wrote his most recent work, Babel, entirely in both English and Dutch himself. [6]
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Augustine addresses the issue in The City of God. [2] While not explicit, the implication of there being but one human language prior to the Tower of Babel's collapse is that the language, which was preserved by Heber and his son Peleg, and which is recognized as the language passed down to Abraham and his descendants, is the language that would have been used by Adam.