Quotes by : Andrew Dalby

Words for completely novel concepts and technical breakthroughs are devised as soon as needed, explained....

The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate....

On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese....

It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same....

Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring....

If two thousand five hundred languages are to be lost in the course of the twenty-first century, don’t....