Babel No More (47 page)

Burton, Sir Richard Francis,
47
,
104
,
280

Byron, George Gordon, Lord,
4
–5,
58

California, University of:

at Berkeley,
21
,
120
,
129

at Irvine,
158

at Los Angeles,
160
,
237

“Californian” language,
31
,
43

calques,
96
–97,
99

Campbell, George,
73
,
281

Cansdale, Graham,
166
–67,
222
–25,
224,
225
,
242
,
261
,
263
,
264

Caronni, Felix,
3

cartoons,
53

Catalan language,
39
,
119

catechism,
31

Catherine, Saint,
32

Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute of Brain Research,
170

cell phones,
8

Celtic languages,
75
,
76
,
218

Central Institute for
Indian Languages,
205

Chaldaic language,
75

Chaldean language,
4
,
43
,
76

Chee, Michael,
233
,
292

Chicago, University of,
108
,
208

Chihuahua,
87
–89

child prodigies,
79
,
282

China,
8
,
44
,
55
,
147
,
149
–53

value of English language in,
9

Chinese language,
4
,
30
,
31
,
35
,
41
,
43
,
44
–45,
57
,
120
,
123
,
147
–48

Cantonese,
106
,
109

characters of,
39
,
113
,
117
,
150

Mandarin,
9
,
10
,
20
,
52
,
81
,
97
,
106
–7,
109
,
123
,
124
,
149
,
151
,
251

study of,
9
,
110
,
149
,
174

Chinese University of Hong Kong,
164

Chippewa language,
42

Christianity,
150

Christopher,
94
–99,
124
,
141
,
162
–65,
169
,
210

language abilities of,
69
,
94
–96,
98
–99,
134
,
175
,
227
–28

mental impairment of,
69
,
94
–96,
97
,
162

Cispadane Republic,
35

Cixi, Empress Dowager of China,
149

C.J.,
162
–66,
168
–69,
227
–28

Cochin-Chinese
language,
42

Codex Cospi,
60
,
267

Cohen, Andrew,
128
,
259
–60

cold war,
90

Coleman, Loren,
169

colloquialisms,
53

Colloquial Romanian,
119

Colombia,
19
–20,
55
,
91

Colomer, Josep,
206
–7

colonialism,
84
,
242

colors,
49
,
280

Columbia University,
107
–8,
200

Columbus, Christopher,
79

Confucius,
151

Conrad, Joseph,
231
–32

Cook, Vivian,
52
–54,
197
,
280

Cooper, James Fenimore,
40

Coptic
language,
3
,
4
,
31
, 433

Cornish language,
42
,
118

Coryat, Tom,
42

Costello, Elvis,
120

Cox, Gregg,
176
–77,
220
–21,
226
–27

Cox, Sabine,
220

creole languages,
106

cryptozoology,
169
,
248
–49

Curtin, Jeremiah,
78
,
78

Czech language,
35
,
43
,
104
,
207

Czerniawski, Eugen M.,
100
,
105

d-amphetamine,
237
,
293

Danish language,
31
,
43
,
75
,
104

Dart, Frédéric,
203

Dead Souls
(Gogol),
102

deafness,
45
,
279

de Bot, Kees,
224
,
291

Defense Language Institute (DLI),
176
,
216
–17

Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT),
216
,
223

DeKeyser, Robert,
24
–26,
134
,
136

De Koninck, Joseph,
48
,
280

Delaware language,
42

dialects,
5
,
6
,
10
,
47
n,
115

Florentine,
35

local,
35
,
90

Parisian,
51

regional,
51

Tuscan,
153

versions of,
45

dictionaries,
5
,
11
,
31
,
37
,
39
,
75
,
84
,
95
,
122
,
148
,
227

diffusion tensor imaging (DTI),
157

digital language repeater,
133

Doniger, Wendy,
198

Donovan, Edgar,
216
–17,
222

dopamine,
237
,
241
,
262

Dravidian languages,
191
,
196
,
200
,
208

Dreaming in Chinese
(Fallows),
86

Dreaming in Hindi
(Rich),
86

Duran, Miguel,
88
–89

Dutch language,
4
,
25
,
30
,
31
,
39
,
43
,
95
,
106
,
114
–15,
124
,
181
–82,
207
,
248
,
250

dyslexia,
165
,
166
,
214

Eapen, Joshy,
204

East India Company,
47
n

Eats, Shoots & Leaves
(Truss),
207

Edinburgh University,
255

Egypt,
85
n

Ehrman, Madeline,
163
n,
215
,
291

Einstein, Albert, brain of,
160

Elements of Style, The
(White and Strunk),
207

Elizabeth I, Queen of England,
197

Ellis Island,
153
–54

Emlen, Deborah,
59

English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad,
202

English language,
4
,
5
,
8
,
17
,
18
,
30
,
43
,
49
,
96