Bibliograph

Chitchat, celebrating the world's languages, written by Jude Isabella ; illustrated by Kathy Boake

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Chitchat, celebrating the world's languages, written by Jude Isabella ; illustrated by Kathy Boake

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Chitchat

Oclc number

821261799

Responsibility statement

written by Jude Isabella ; illustrated by Kathy Boake

Sub title

celebrating the world's languages

Summary

How did language come to be? Why can we speak, while cats and dogs can't? When, how, and where did our 7,000 world languages come from? Isabella looks at languages-- spoken, written and signed-- to find out where they came from and how they're changing

Table Of Contents

Let's chitchat -- Speak up! -- Language is... -- How language came to be -- Talking in (genetic) code -- Language families -- The sky is...black -- Language extinction -- Languages in danger -- Saving languages -- How languages morph -- Where do words come from? -- Out with the old... -- ...and in with the new -- Slanguistics -- Invented languages -- Written language -- Which alphabet? -- Unspoken languages -- The last word

Target audience

juvenile

resource.variantTitle

Chit chat

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