Immigrant Tongues

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TRACING THE JOURNEY OF GLOBAL LANGUAGES

Immigrant Tongues is the ultimate exploration of language history, blending stories of migration, culture, and evolution to uncover how words have shaped our world. Each chapter delves into the origins of a language, its journey across the globe, the native tongues it encountered, and how it evolved in its new home.

Discover the stories behind linguistic diversity with author and etymological researcher Patrick Foote to map how languages move, transform, and adapt. Track the linguistic movements of the past like the intercontinental migrations of English, the spread of Arabic across North Africa, and the enduring legacy of Latin-as well as more recent and underreported language travels, like Welsh finding a home in a small pocket of Argentina and the establishment of Polish as England’s second tongue. The perfect gift for fans of linguistics and etymology, this book reveals the native languages spoken before immigrant tongues arrived, how languages like French and Maori transformed over time, and why some evolved into today’s modern lingua francas.