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Language Families of the World
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Categories: History, Ancient History
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Publisher's Summary
Language, in its seemingly infinite varieties, tells us who we are and where we come from. Many linguists believe that all of the world’s languages - over 7,000 currently - emerged from a single prehistoric source. While experts have not yet been able to reproduce this proto-language, most of the world’s current languages can be traced to various language families that have branched and divided, spreading across the globe with migrating humans and evolving over time.
The ability to communicate with the spoken word is so prevelant that we have yet to discover a civilization that does not speak. The fitful preservation of human remains throughout history has made tracing the ultimate origin of sophisticated human cultures difficult, but it is assumed that language is at least 300,000 years old. With so much time comes immense change - including the development of the written word. There’s no doubt that over centuries, numerous languages have been born, thrived, and died. So how did we get here, and how do we trace the many language branches back to the root?
In Language Families of the World, Professor John McWhorter of Columbia University takes you back through time and around the world, following the linguistic trails left by generations of humans that lead back to the beginnings of language. Utilizing historical theories and cutting-edge research, these 34 astonishing lectures will introduce you to the major language families of the world and their many offspring, including a variety of languages that are no longer spoken but provide vital links between past and present.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-03-2019
Awesome
John McWhorter should be on stage doing stand up. He's hilarious. Whatsmore he's fascinating to listen to and passionate to a degree rarely encountered. I've listened to all of his courses and read his book and always come away with the sense that I've encountered true dedication. I look forward to his next course.
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- Timothy Mcardle
- 02-04-2021
Extremely short on content
There's about 15 minutes of decent info in this book which I can read directly from Wikipedia. The rest of this book is goofy anecdotes and impressions of long gone languages. I've tried and tried but i find the narrator particularly annoying to listen to. The majority of the content is the narrator attempting to speak a few words to illustrate the given language in a characturised, indistinct, foreign sounding accent. I don't find this informative at all. I'm interested in the origins and development of languages. I did not find this book provided that so I returned it to audible for a refund.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-01-2021
more please
I would listen to 10 more of these in a heartbeat. would love an intro to linguistics course by John McWhorter. He's so engaging!
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-07-2020
I can't give this series enough praise.
Public consumption of academic knowledge is hit and miss. John McWhorter does a brilliant job of articulating concepts that would otherwise be too difficult to consume. Stnapon!
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- Anand Manu
- 18-02-2019
An amazing set of lecturea
A great set of lessons on language. Professor McWhorter is one of the best lecturers I've ever heard. This series is very highly recommended.
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- Privet
- 20-04-2019
Exactly what I was hoping and searching for
again, John McWortet delivers a great performance. The book, or rather the lecture structure, is extremely well put together. The performance, as always, complicated enough to let you know that he's an expert, but simple and humorous enough to let you actually learn and cause you to actually want to learn. I have been looking for a nice exposition of the language families of the world, and this did that perfectly. It also open my eyes to different ways of thinking, different ways of communicating, and different ways of being a human being. Anything that increases my understanding and tolerance like that, while also being a book that I've looked for since I was about 4 years old, is very good.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-03-2019
Superb
Overviewing the language families of the world is a massive undertaking, but McWhorter pulls it off well! He breaks up the lectures on specific families with tidbits about linguistics in general. Individual lectures are both entertaining and informative. Highly recommend!
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- Mark
- 10-02-2019
Entertaining
Anyone familiar with Professor McWhorter's work will enjoy this course. It's not the most structured lecture series you'll ever find, but it sparkles with McWhorter's trademark riffing, digressions, anecdotes, silly voices and pop culture references. Think of it as 16 hours of the most accomplished and entertaining linguist imaginable summarizing everything he knows about language families.
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- Tim
- 12-02-2019
Great update!
While using some of the same lessons from his previous course, the story of human language, Dr. Mcworter still manages to be extremely engaging to the language curiosity in all of us. If you’ve listen to the previous “story of human language”, this will be as enjoyable and more so if you want to dig down into what exactly makes all these language families so very different.
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- F. Stuart Leeds
- 19-04-2019
Masterful as Ever - and Then Some
John McWhorter is (in a turn of phrase he might appreciate)...kinda sui generis. Some teachers are great performers. And some performers are great teachers. McWhorter is all of the above. His courses are so much fun, and so full of illuminating information. My only complaint is that they are of finite length, and that they eventually have to come to their ends. As for this particular course - well. What a whirlwind survey of the world’s languages. And what rare form McWhorter is in, as he covers them all with panache and brio. My only faint plaint is that, as an unrepentant popularizer, he sometimes tries a little too hard to keep things simple, if not a little dumbed-down. These might not be 101 courses, but they’re not 301s, either. I think we can handle a little more technical jargon, and a little deeper dive into the linguist’s toolkit. But these are trifling kvetches. This course is simply fabulous, and you just need to 1. Get it, 2. Listen to it, and 3. Lather-rinse-repeat with the entire McWhorter catalogue.
33 people found this helpful
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- Maev
- 22-06-2019
Best of McWhorter
This is the best audio course you'll find by McWhorter on audible. Extremely interesting and McWhorter's quirky presentation makes this one a must have if you like linguistics.
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- Ben
- 01-03-2019
Loved It!!!
The most enjoyable Great Courses lecture so far. Professor McWhorter is outstanding. I highly recommend this series.
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- Kristine G.
- 28-03-2019
Interesting
John McWhorter is entertaining and funny. His voice is warm and caring. He does a great job teaching about languages and how they develop, change and die off.
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- Utah Homme
- 28-04-2019
Excellent Overview and Fascinating Details
Another home run from the excellent John McWhorter. Great insights into the languages of the world and their distinguishing features. A great antidote to any notions that Western languages have inherent superiority to others.
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- Alwyn Vorster
- 11-05-2019
Extremely interesting
If languages mixed with a bit of history is your kind of thing, you'll enjoy this. Funny and charismatic professor too.
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- TheLastWord
- 27-08-2019
Great but two niggles
Really enjoyable lecture series. I had two niggling complaints after finishing. The first was that McWhorter only ever adopts a pejorative tone when describing the effects of empires when the imperialism was done by people with white skin, e.g. the British or the Russians. He skips every opportunity to moralize when it's brown-skinned folks who did the raping, enslaving, and language-diversity-destroying. The second was that in the final lecture he missed an opportunity to discuss the South American khipu as a form of writing which may rival cuneiform for antiquity based on recent archeology.
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- Tinsiuol
- 09-09-2019
At times annoying jokes
Prof McWorther is trying a bit too hard to be funny. Some of his jokes are really rather childish and hearing him imitating voices is rather embarrassing and at times annoying. The content, however, is incredibly fascinating.
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- Kira Adams
- 13-06-2019
John McWhorter does it again!
This course provides a detailed introduction to the languages of the world, roughly following the path of human migration as the species left East Africa. You’ll learn how experts know or guess that certain languages are related into what they call “families,” what shared characteristics each family has, and the debates between “lumpers” and “splitters” about whether certain families exist at all. McWhorter carefully selects some of the most interesting languages out there, most of which you will never have heard of, and explains their bizarre idiosyncrasies. It’s fairly intellectual, yes, but uncomplicated enough that you can listen while you are doing something else.
But what makes this course a real gem is McWhorter’s amazing delivery. He’ll have you laughing out loud as he explains the facts through his trademark non-sequiturs, rambling Grandpa Simpson stories, sound effects and cast of “Hanna Barbera” voices. His running gag about the “the coconut languages [hums Aloha Oe]” had me giggling every time. He knows exactly how to make the facts entertaining, and exactly what information to skip over because it’s too boring.
Yes, John, we *would* like to go to one of your dinner parties.
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- Roy foley
- 29-01-2021
Engaging!
John McWhorter is a great narrator and keeps you interested in his field.
I love the way he's travelled around the world in language following the accepted pattern of human migration. it's great!
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-09-2020
Captivating
What a fantastic tour of the language groups of the world delivered in a very interesting and engaging manner. Definitely going to listen to other books in this series and related topics. I have thoroughly enjoyed it.
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- Sanja Cvetko
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amazing lecturer
so inspiring. makes me want to study linguistics. lets document all the languages we can. thank god slovenian language is written. huh. 2 million people speaking. not bad
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Comprehensive and learned
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Entertaining and Informative
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Very interesting
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The author obviously knows his stuff and has a listener friendly presentation style. Some nice insights into the politics of his chosen academic field.
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