TY - BOOK AU - McWhorter John TI - The Power of Babel: A nature history of Language SN - 978-0-06-052085-4 U1 - 417.7 23 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Perennial N1 - 1.The First language Morphs into six thousand new ones 2.The Six thousand Languages Develop into clusters of sublanguages 3.The thousands of dialects mix with one another 4.Some language are crushed to powder ER -