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The story of Spanish / Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow

By:

Nadeau, Jean-Benoît

Contributor(s):

Barlow, Julie, 1968-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Press , c2013Description: 428 p. : 21 cmISBN:

9781250049049

Subject(s):

Spanish language -- History

DDC classification:

460.9 NAD

Summary: Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern Spain become the world's second most spoken language, the official language of twenty-one countries on two continents, and the unofficial second language of the United States? Full of surprises and honed in Nadeau and Barlow's trademark style, combining personal anecdote, reflections, and deep research, The Story of Spanish is the first full biography of a language that shaped the world we know, and the only global language with two names - Spanish and Castilian.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	460.9 NAD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Non fiction		018697

Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern Spain become the world's second most spoken language, the official language of twenty-one countries on two continents, and the unofficial second language of the United States? Full of surprises and honed in Nadeau and Barlow's trademark style, combining personal anecdote, reflections, and deep research, The Story of Spanish is the first full biography of a language that shaped the world we know, and the only global language with two names - Spanish and Castilian.

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