{"product_id":"the-last-lingua-franca-nicholas-ostler","title":"The Last Lingua Franca - Nicholas Ostler","description":"\u003cp\u003eA revelatory and exhilarating tour de force, Nicholas Ostler's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplores the rise of a linguistic diversity we could never before have imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the twenty-first century, can we really take the dominance of English for granted?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn their time, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit and Persian have each been world languages, sweeping the globe for centuries at a time. And yet they have all been displaced, just as Nicholas Ostler predicts English will be. What forces drive these linguistic currents? What characteristics do lingua francas share? And most importantly, how do they lose their power?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNicholas Ostler is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmpires of the Word: A Language History of the World\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAd Infinitum: A Biography of Latin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. He studied Greek, Latin and Philosophy at the University of Oxford and holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT. With a working knowledge of twenty-six languages, Nicholas now run\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57238513746300,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/TLLF-NO-01.jpg?v=1785668612","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/the-last-lingua-franca-nicholas-ostler","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}