| Descript |
44 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm. |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Audience |
930L Lexile |
| Note |
Accelerated Reader LG 6.3 2 2 160219 |
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Includes index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Juvenile literature.
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Language and languages.
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| Add Author |
Boake, Kathy.
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| Alt Title |
Chit chat |
| ISBN |
9781554537877 |
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