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Diversity of life

Diversity of life SPRING BOOKS have even observed groups of young chil­ tion of the world. Many previous books on the population of speakers. The loss of the world's languages have adopted the dren spontaneously create fully fledged any human language is the loss of a languages. Whoever said that our ability title of encyclopaedia, but this atlas is the communication system as fully developed first to provide maps showing the geo­ to use language is not an adaptation? as one's own - all the different human graphical reach of each language. Each of The earliest language was probably first languages are regarded as roughly equally the 135 colour maps contains a numbered spoken sometime within the past 100,000 complex. E. Sapir and B. L. Whorf ad­ and colour-coded key. Those for the years. Nobody knows what this language vanced the idea that language structures was like, but it may have left traces: a few Americas and Australia record the lan­ the mind. One's language is not only the guages as they probably were at the begin­ sounds seem to recur in most languages. language in which one thinks, it influences ning of European colonial expansion, and The most celebrated is 'tik' http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Springer Journals

Diversity of life

Taylor, Michael
Nature , Volume 368 (6469) – Mar 24, 1994
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 1994 by Nature Publishing Group
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Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary; Science, multidisciplinary
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0028-0836
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1476-4687
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10.1038/368362a0
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Abstract

SPRING BOOKS have even observed groups of young chil­ tion of the world. Many previous books on the population of speakers. The loss of the world's languages have adopted the dren spontaneously create fully fledged any human language is the loss of a languages. Whoever said that our ability title of encyclopaedia, but this atlas is the communication system as fully developed first to provide maps showing the geo­ to use language is not an adaptation? as one's own - all the different human graphical reach of each language. Each of The earliest language was probably first languages are regarded as roughly equally the 135 colour maps contains a numbered spoken sometime within the past 100,000 complex. E. Sapir and B. L. Whorf ad­ and colour-coded key. Those for the years. Nobody knows what this language vanced the idea that language structures was like, but it may have left traces: a few Americas and Australia record the lan­ the mind. One's language is not only the guages as they probably were at the begin­ sounds seem to recur in most languages. language in which one thinks, it influences ning of European colonial expansion, and The most celebrated is 'tik'

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Published: Mar 24, 1994

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