The Story of Language

addition alphabet American ancient appear Arabic Basic become beginning borrowed British called century characters Chinese close combination comes common complete countries course cultural definite described developed dialects difficulty distinction Dutch English example existing expressions fact foreign French German give given grammatical Greek guage hand human hundred important Indian indicate individual Indo-European interest islands Italian Italy Japanese language later Latin learning least less linguistic literally literary means million native nature nouns object once origin perhaps Persian person political Portuguese possible present pronounced recent records rise Roman root Russian seems semantic serve similar slang Slavic sounds South Spanish speak speakers speech spelling spoken structure symbol things tion tongue translation true turn United verb vocabulary vowels western words writing written