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The Loom of Language

A Guuide to Foreign Languages for the Home Student

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An edition of The loom of language: a guide to foreign languages for the home student (1943)

The Loom of Language

A Guuide to Foreign Languages for the Home Student

2nd impression (1996) of 1st paperback edition (1987)

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The Merlin Press
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Subjects
Language and languages, Glossaries, vocabularies, Modern Languages, Study and teaching, Indo-European languages, Linguistica, Woordenschat, Taalvergelijking, Historische taalwetenschap

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1944, Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, distributed by W.W. Norton & Company, inc.
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First Sentence

"What language we habitually speak depends upon a geographical accident. It has nothing to do with the composition of the human sperm or of the human egg."

Table of Contents

Editor's Forword Page 11
I. Introduction Page 15
II. The Story of the Alphabet Page 47
III. Accidence - The Table Manners of Language Page 89
IV. Syntax - The Traffic Rules of Language Page 129
V. The Classification of Languages Page 176
VI. How to Learn the Basic Word List Page 219
VII. Bird's Eye View of Teutonic Grammar Page 261
VIII. The Latin Legacy Page 309
IX. Modern Descendants of Latin Page 349
X. The Diseases of Language Page 405
XI. Pioneers of Language Planning Page 443
XII. Language Planning for a New Order Page 481
App. I. Basic Vocabularies for the Teutonic Languages Page 516
App. II. Basic Vocabularies for the Romance Languages Page 577
App. III. Greek Roots in Common Use for Technical Words of International Currency Page 636
Index Page 660

Edition Notes

First published (1944) by Allen and Unwin, London
Originally published as one of the Primers for the Age of Plenty along with 'Mathematics for the Million' and 'Science for the Citizen'.

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Bodmer, Frederick
Loom of Language: a guide to foreign languages for the home student.
1. Indo-European Languages
I. title
410 P561

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OL23992617M
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0850363500

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