The Story of Spanish
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Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern Spain become the world’s second most spoken language, the official language of twenty-one countries on two continents, and the unofficial second language of the United States? Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow, the husband-and-wife team who chronicled the history of the French language in The Story of French, now look at the roots and spread of modern Spanish. Full of surprises and honed in Nadeau and Barlow’s trademark style, combining personal anecdote, reflections, and deep research, The Story of Spanish is the first full biography of a language that shaped the world we know, and the only global language with two names - Spanish and Castilian.
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ISBN: 9781250049049
Published Date: July 15, 2014
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Language: English
Page Count: 428
Size: 8.29" l x 5.39" w x 1.21" h
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines
Subject
Linguistics