Babel: Around the world in Twenty languages (Record no. 22395)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20240825104330.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 978-1781256411 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 409 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dorren, Gaston |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Babel: Around the world in Twenty languages |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Profile Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 361p., ind., 20 cm x 13 cm |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Recommended by: Suryansha Rawat |
| 521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE | |
| Target audience note | Content:<br/><br/><br/><br/> Introduction: twenty languages: half the world -- Vietnamese, 85 million: linguistic moutaineering -- Korean, 85 million: sound and sensibility -- Tamil, 90 million: a matter of life and death -- Turkish, 90 million: irreparably improved -- Javanese, 95 million: talking up, talking down -- Persian, 110 million: empire builders and construction workers -- Punjabi, 125 million: the tone is the message -- Japanese, 130 million: linguistic gender apartheid -- Swahili, 135 million: Africa's nonchalant multilingualism -- German, 200 million: an eccentric in central Europe -- French, 250 million: death to la différence -- Malay, 275 million: the one that won -- Russian, 275 million: on being Indo-European -- Portuguese, 275 million: punching above its weight -- Bengali, 275 million: world leaders in abugidas -- Arabic, 375 million: a concise dictionary of our Arabic -- Hindi-Urdu, 550 million: always something breaking us in two -- Spanish, 575 million: ¿Ser or estar? that's the question -- Mandarin, 1.3 billion: the mythical Chinese script -- Japanese revisited: a writing system lacking in system -- English, 1.5 billion: a special lingua franca? |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| General subdivision | linguistic geography |
| -- | language and languages |
| -- | variation |
| -- | philology |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Inventory number | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | KEIC | KEIC | 08/21/2024 | Kushal Books | 1119.88 | 272 | 2 | 409 DOR | 23541 | 11/18/2024 | 11/06/2024 | 4991.00 | 08/21/2024 | Books |