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- Nicholas Ostler is a scholar and scientist of languages, who has a working knowledge of 26 languages and who, five years ago, set up the Foundation for Endangered Languages, an international organisation, to provide funding and support to document and revitilise languages in peril. Nicholas Ostler is the author of ‘Empires of the Word’.
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He is currently the chairman of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, and lives in Hungerford, England. In 2013, he wrote the foreword for Navlipi, the publication of a universal script that deals with phonemic idiosyncrasies inherent in all the world's languages.
Linguist Nicholas Ostler is chair of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, a nonprofit organization that supports the use of endangered languages in the communities where they are found. He is also the author of Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, which in part studies the factors that determine how a language survives.
Sep 2, 2008 · In his erudite and entertaining "biography," Nicholas Ostler shows how and why Latin survived and thrived even as its creators and other languages failed. Originally the dialect of Rome and its surrounds, Latin supplanted its neighbors to become, by conquest and settlement, the language of all Italy, and then of Western Europe and North Africa.
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Among many engaging things in this masterly book, Nicholas Ostler explains this connection between the ancient, dead language of Latin and the living, changing one of Italian. The change came surprisingly late, long after the invasion of the Roman Empire by the Goths, the Vandals and all that squad.
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Nov 5, 2007 · In ‘Ad Infinitum’, Nicholas Ostler examines the reasons why Latin made such a long-lasting impact on language, and how it managed to stay alive for two millennia despite the cultural superiority of Greek.
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Feb 25, 2010 · In ‘Ad Infinitum’, Nicholas Ostler examines the reasons why Latin made such a long-lasting impact on language, and how it managed to stay alive for two millennia despite the cultural superiority...
May 26, 2009 · In his erudite and entertaining "biography," Nicholas Ostler shows how and why (against the odds, through conquest from within and without) Latin survived and thrived even as its creators and...
