Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language
Civilization to Colonization
Directed by Christene BrowneTV-G
S1 • E4 Apr 24, 2008 48mWriting is a relative latecomer to the history of language. This program tracks its emergence in Mesopotamia, China, and Mesoamerica and its spread down through the millennia via conquest-usually violent, sometimes benign-and colonization. The creation of creoles and pidgins resulting from the interaction of specific populations is also addressed, and speculation is made about the first things to be written down.
