The Story of Language

adjective Africa alphabet American Indian ancient Anglo-Saxon appear Arabic Arabic alphabet Basic become borrowed British called Celtic century Chinese civilization Classical coined comes common concepts consonants constructed language convey countries cultural Czech dialects distinction Dutch English Esperanto expressions fact foreign languages French Gauls gender German Germanic languages give Greek guage Hebrew Hindustani human Hungarian indicate Indo-European Indo-European languages islands Italian Japanese later Latin learning linguistic literally literary means medieval million speakers modern native nature nouns origin perhaps Persian phonetic pidgin place-names plural political Portuguese prefix pronounced pronunciation rise Roman Romance languages root Rumanian Russian Sanskrit Scandinavian semantic slang Slavic Slavic languages sounds South Soviet Spanish speak speech spelling spoken language spoken tongue stress structure suffix syllable symbol syntactical syntax tion translation Turkish variant verb vocabulary Volapük vowels Vulgar Latin western words writing written form