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Ideas and languages: 10 languages that changed the world

Ideas and languages: 10 languages that changed the world

Update: 2013-10-29
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Professor Ian Roberts will explore how languages shape human culture and human thought. Some languages have shaped our world more than others and some of them are not as obvious as you might think. This talk offers a sample of those languages, from Sanskrit to Singlish, via French and Esperanto, with one or two real surprises along the way.
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Ideas and languages: 10 languages that changed the world

Ideas and languages: 10 languages that changed the world

Nick Saffell

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