In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and The Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language
by:
Arika Okrent (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: 8343762
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
History,
Reference,
Humanities,
Language,
Science,
Culture,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Anthropology
This is an entertaining book that covers the history of invented languages back to medieval times. Okrent covers the fads and fallacies that motivated hundreds of language inventors in the 18th and 19th centuries, the many attempts to create a "universal" language in the 19th and 20th centuries (inc...
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