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# Grove Press Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

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Review: A very good read for the lay man who is interested in language, culture and history. A missed a chapter about the languages of the indiginous people of the Amerikas.
Review: Bra att ha

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #288,833 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #585 in Linguistics Reference |
| Customer reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (76) |
| Dimensions  | 13.46 x 2.79 x 21.08 cm |
| Edition  | Illustrated |
| ISBN-10  | 0802147801 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0802147806 |
| Item weight  | 386 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 368 pages |
| Publication date  | 17 December 2019 |
| Publisher  | Grove Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by Q***T on 23 October 2021*

A very good read for the lay man who is interested in language, culture and history. A missed a chapter about the languages of the indiginous people of the Amerikas.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by K***E on 29 April 2023*

Bra att ha

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by A***S on 9 December 2018*

Gaston Dorren’s description of various features of the world’s twenty most spoken languages is anything but babbling. Although the book does not have a consistent theme, Dorren blends biographical, historical, and cultural material along with morphological descriptions of languages into something like a delicious cheesecake. There are no earth-shattering theses or discoveries, but the sparkling text and original material make the subject matter interesting, even for non-linguaphiles. For example, one can learn facts as various as the history of the Indian subcontinent and how it shaped Hindi/Urdu/Bengali as well as that Chinese characters are often joined together as syllables to make words. Dorren further explains why Portuguese and not Dutch is one of the world’s major languages and why learning German is so difficult for English speakers—though they were the same language some twelve hundred years ago. Throughout the text is marked by a welcome cosmopolitan approach to cultures and history. Dorren does not fall for the mistake of assuming that European culture has increasingly dominated the world and so the histories of non-European peoples before contact with Westerners are of little interest. Instead, the interaction between Aryans and Dravidians, the spread of Malay and the separation between Japan and China are all discussed. For someone who received a strongly Westernized approach to modern history in school, the lack of an overriding narrative was not fog-inducing but more like fresh air. I wouldn't say that everybody should read this book or that the book contains something that is going to be culturally transformative but if one is looking for something relatively light that still goes beyond pop-culture this is an excellent choice. With the holiday season upon us, Babel is an ideal gift for polyglots or merely just aspiring ones. A pleasant read all around.

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