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Human Diversity and the Genealogy of Languages: Noah as the Founding Ancestor of the Chinese
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Hutton, Christopher – Language Sciences, 2008
The characteristics which were held to define the Chinese language within the Western intellectual tradition placed it for a time at the centre in discussions of the genealogy of mankind. The dominant premodern paradigm for the explanation of human linguistic diversity was Biblical exegesis, as discussed and elaborated within the framework of…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Languages, Written Language, Multilingualism