Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language(2008)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2008-04-04
Average Runtime: 50m
Rating: 0.0
Votes: 0
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 5
Currently there are more than 6,000 languages spoken around the world. This five-part series traces the history and evolution of language and attendant theories and controversies while evaluating the scope of linguistic diversity, the dissemination of language, the expansion of language into written form, and the life cycle of language.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 5E01
Let There Be Words
Air Date: 2008-04-04
What precisely is language, and how did humans acquire it? In an effort to answer those essential questions, this pro...
E02
Constant Change
Air Date: 2008-04-11
In this program, John McWhorter, author of The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language; Lyle Campbell, of the U...
E03
Mother Tongues
Air Date: 2008-04-18
This program travels the globe as it surveys a large portion of the worlds languages—25 percent of which are spoken b...
E04
Civilization to Colonization
Air Date: 2008-04-25
Writing is a relative latecomer to the history of language. This program tracks its emergence in Mesopotamia, China, ...
E05
Life and Death
Air Date: 2008-05-02
It is predicted that within a century more than half of the worlds languages will become extinct, but as languages ar...
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