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    Chitchat : celebrating the world's languages / written by Jude Isabella ; illustrated by Kathy Boake.
    by Isabella, Jude.
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    Kids Can Press, c2013.
    Call #:401 I74c
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  • Language and languages -- Juvenile literature.
  • ISBN: 
    9781554537877
    1554537878
    Description: 
    44 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
    Notes: 
    Includes index.
    Contents: 
    Let's chitchat -- Speak up! -- Language is... -- How language came to be -- Talking in (genetic) code -- Language families -- The sky is...black -- Language extinction -- Languages in danger -- Saving languages -- How languages morph -- Where do words come from? -- Out with the old... -- ...and in with the new -- Slanguistics -- Invented languages -- Written language -- Which alphabet? -- Unspoken languages -- The last word -- Answers -- Glossary.
    Summary: 
    This guide to language takes readers on a trip of the tongue, exploring how languages spoken, written and sign originate and change over time.
    Other authors: 
    Boake, Kathy.
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