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 | The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John H. Mcwhorter, Professor John Mcwhorter Paperback, 350 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 0-06-052085-X / 006052085X ISBN-13: 978-0-06-052085-4 / 9780060520854 In his enormously ambitious book The Power of Babel, John McWhorter offers an account of the first common language ever spoken by human beings, and proceeds to explore why it then fragmented into the 6,000 languages that are spoken today across the globe. As Professor of Linguistics at the Universit | |