Language Soup: A taste of how diverse people around the world communicate
Kathryn A. T. Knox
eBook
(Ruby Mountain Press, Ltd., Jan. 4, 2013)
Have you ever wondered why languages are so diverse in the world?Would you like to know why English spelling sometimes seems weird?Would you like to write your name in Chinese, Russian, Arabic, or Japanese?Would you like a taste of Navajo and Arapaho and to learn about different Native American languages?Would you like to learn some interesting things about Latin, Spanish, French, Greek, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, Yoruba, Finnish, Arapaho, Navajo, Constructed Languages, English, and many more languages?There are chapters in this book about how languages connect with other languages, how different languages work, how languages are similar and different from each other, how languages change over time, and some language games and facts. Learning about language can be really eye-opening and fascinating because language represents how we all interpret the world and then communicate together.