Babel No More (48 page)

aviation industry’s use of,
54
–55

as global lingua franca,
9
,
10
,
85
,
261

Middle,
108
,
118

native vs. non-native speakers of,
9

Old,
108

pidgin version of,
7

prestige and utility of,
9

as second language,
9

spread of,
9

standardized foreign versions of,
9

study and teaching of,
9
,
20
,
25
,
182
,
261

Enki (god),
12

Enlil (god),
12

enunciation,
46

Esperanto,
247

Estonia,
31

Estonian
language,
54
,
75
n

Ethiopian language,
31
,
43
,
75

Euclid,
35

Eurobarometer poll of 2005,
91
n

European Commission,
25
,
53
,
166

European Union,
9
,
71

bilingualism advocated in,
91

Everett, William,
74
–75

Exceptional Brain, The: Neuropsychology of Talent and Special Abilities
(Obler and Fein, eds.),
162
,
212
,
287

eyes,
10
,
77

Fallows, Deborah,
86

Farsi language,
109
–10

Fazah, Ziad,
100
,
105
–7,
108
–10,
125
–27,
176
,
210
,
226
,
257

Ferriss, Tim,
86
,
283

Finnish language,
81
,
109
,
152

Finno-Ugric languages,
218

flash cards,
131
,
267
–68,
269

Flemish language,
35
,
43
,
75

Flume, Harvey,
214

Flynn, Suzanne,
226

Foreign Service Institute,
223
,
291

School of Language Studies of,
215

Foschi, Paula,
29

Fowler, Lorenzo Niles,
77
–78,
282

FOXP2 gene,
234

French language,
4
,
8
,
10
,
18
,
25
,
30
,
35
,
41
,
43
,
46
,
124

dialects in,
51

Old,
108

study of,
9
,
19
,
20
,
33
,
48
,
148
–49

French Revolution,
51

Friedman, Naomi,
263
,
293

Frisian language,
42
,
118
,
255

functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI),
157
,
232
,
233
,
287
,
289

Gaelic language,
42
,
75
,
111
,
252
,
255
,
256
,
258

Manx,
118

Scottish,
118

Galaburda, Albert,
165
–66,
288

Galvani, Luigi,
27

Ganahl, Rainer,
83
–85,
86
n,
140
–41,
252
,
265
,
282

Genesis, Book of,
31
,
60

Geneva,
17
,
18

Gentleman Prefer Blondes
(Loos),
102

Georgian language,
43
,
54

Germanic languages,
44
,
96
,
115
,
218

German language,
4
,
5
,
10
,
25
,
30
,
35
,
44
,
60
,
96
,
124
,
148

Austrian dialect of,
5

Middle High,
118

Old High,
108
,
118
,
218

Saxon dialect of,
5

study of,
9
,
33

Swabian dialect of,
5

Geschwind, Norman,
165
–66,
288

Geschwind-Galaburda
hypothesis,
165
–68,
170
,
173
,
212
,
216
,
222
,
229
,
288

gestures,
28
,
110
,
211
,
264
,
294

Gezels, Linda (wife of John Vandewalle),
250
–51

Gethin, Amorey,
226

Ghent University College,
250

Giordani, Pietro,
59

globalization,
8
,
11

glyphs,
60

God,
4
,
11
,
12
,
37
,
60
,
122

Goddess English,
201
–2

Gogol, Nikolay,
102

Golestani, Narly,
232
–33,
292

Golla, Victor,
80

Google, language tools of,
18

Gould, Stephen Jay,
177

grammar,
18
,
37
,
38
,
42
,
45
,
56
,
69
,
97
,
158
,
207
,
259

loss of control over,
9

patterns of,
34
,
163

rules of,
24
,
33
,
103
,
134

shared,
48

word order in,
97
,
99
,
122
–23,
141
,
210
,
240
n

grammar books,
11
,
75
,
95

Great Britain,
85

lack of foreign-language training in,
71
,
72

Greek language,
23
,
32
,
43
,
58
,
95
,
116
,
150

alphabet of,
31

ancient,
33
,
34
,
75
,
84
,
118
,
119

modern,
39
,
120
,
149

Greenblatt, Stephen, ix

Gregory XVI, Pope,
6
,
109
,
137

Grierson, George,
197
,
290

Grosjean, François,
209
,
221
,
291

Guarani language,
167

Guinness Book of World Records, The
106
,
176
,
220
,
226
,
257

Guiora, Alexander,
238

Gujarati language,
4
,
43
,
47
n,
219