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    Chitchat : celebrating the world's languages / written by Jude Isabella ; illustrated by Kathy Boake.
    by Isabella, Jude.
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    Tonawanda, NY : Kids Can Press, c2013.
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  • Language and languages -- Juvenile literature.
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    9781554537877
    1554537878
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    44 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
    Contents: 
    Let's chitchat -- Speak up! -- Language is... -- How language came to be -- Talking in (genetic) code -- Language families -- The sky is...black -- Language extinction -- Languages in danger -- Saving languages -- How languages morph -- Where do words come from? -- Out with the old... -- ...and in with the new -- Slanguistics -- Invented languages -- Written language -- Which alphabet? -- Unspoken languages -- The last word.
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    How did language come to be? Why can we speak, while cats and dogs can't? When, how, and where did our 7,000 world languages come from? Isabella looks at languages-- spoken, written and signed-- to find out where they came from and how they're changing.
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