Language and Community

In his book “The Empires of the Word,” Nicholas Ostler once wrote: “If language is what makes us human, it is languages that make us superhuman.”
- That is, languages connect us to one another and to an unbroken chain of speakers which proceeds back into prehistory - a living record of the collective experiences of community captured in words and phrases handed down, from parent to child, for hundreds and thousands of years

Ostler, Nicholas. 2005. The Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World. New York: Harper Perennial.

In his book “The Empires of the Word,” Nicholas Ostler once wrote: “If language is what makes us human, it is languages that make us superhuman.”