The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language Baby Books China and its neighbors

China and its neighbors

the grim reality of their surroundings

Her ability has been both a power and a problem

forms the reader's own character

The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language Baby Books China and its neighborsIllustrating the compelling history of how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what are now Denmark, the Low Countries, and northern Germany became the most widely spoken language in the world, this book also explores how that language evolved during the last two millennia. Chronologically ordered and divided into six sections covering pre Roman and Latin influences, the ascent of Old English, and the succession of Middle English,