The Little Book of Languages: A Reference Book for People Who are Interested in Some Quick Facts on Some Languages. 123 Languages, To Be Exact - Softcover

Eberhardt, Georg Soren

 
9781482616057: The Little Book of Languages: A Reference Book for People Who are Interested in Some Quick Facts on Some Languages. 123 Languages, To Be Exact

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This is a reference book for people who are interested in some quick facts and entertaining trivia for a language. It offers fascinating information on 123 languages, from Afrikaans to Zulu and answers questions like: Which language did the first Asian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature write in? Where is Chamorro spoken? Where do words like "bogus", "zombie" or "bungalow" come from? What is the relationship of Dari, Persian and Tajik? How many people speak Inuktitut? Not written for linguists but for people who "just" have a passion for foreign languages this book will entertain and educate at the same time.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sören Eberhardt's two passions are literature and language. In the 1990s he published several works on literature of the fin de siècle, mostly on the Austrian author Beer-Hofmann. (These publications are available in German only.) He also published a novel, a short story and, no kidding, a collection of meat poems, based on super market advertising that he created in the late 1990s. Since 1997 he has been working in the translation/localization industry where he has released products in more than 50 languages. Today he is an International Project Manager at a Fortune 500 company. His passion for language(s), the fact that he minored in linguistics and his love for trivia made him write "The Little Book of Languages" while he was working on getting a software product translated for Azerbaijani, Belarusian and other languages for the first time.

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