Chitchat

By Jude Isabella

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Social Science, Language and languages, juvenile literature, Language and languages, JUVENILE NONFICTION, Language Arts, Customs, Traditions, Anthropology

Description: How did language come to be? Why can we speak, while cats and dogs can't? When, how, and where did our 7,000 world languages come from? Isabella looks at languages-- spoken, written and signed-- to find out where they came from and how they're changing.