Empires of the World

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Nicholas Ostler studies the history of the world’s languages, and explains why some languages survive, while others fade away, in Empires of the Word.

Music: Music from “Broken Flowers’ soundtrack; “Ride Your Donkey” by the Tennors and “Yegelle Tezeta” by Mulata Astatke

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