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Offers a 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded another at different times in history. This book reveals that the language history of the world shows the real characters of peoples; it also shows that the language of the future will, like the languages of the past, be full of surprises.§Greek, Sanskrit, Mandarin Chinese and English that has led to their supremacy at different times.