01880cam a2200337 i 4500 623813310 TxAuBib 20131231120000.0 121212s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781554537877 hardback 1554537878 hardback (OCoLC)821261799 NLC NLC eng eng rda rda NLC rda OCLCO rda NLC YDXCP BDX OCP ILC VP@ MNF TXKPL TxAuBib OCLCO YDXCP BDX OCP ILC VP@ MNF TXKPL TxAuBib rda Isabella, Jude. Chitchat : celebrating the world's languages / written by Jude Isabella ; illustrated by Kathy Boake. Chit chat. Toronto, ON : Kids Can Press, [2013] 44 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. Let's chitchat -- Speak up! -- Language is... -- How language came to be -- Talking in (genetic) code -- Language families -- The sky is...black -- Language extinction -- Languages in danger -- Saving languages -- How languages morph -- Where do words come from? -- Out with the old... -- ...and in with the new -- Slanguistics -- Invented languages -- Written language -- Which alphabet? -- Unspoken languages -- The last word. How did language come to be? Why can we speak, while cats and dogs can't? When, how, and where did our 7,000 world languages come from? Isabella looks at languages-- spoken, written and signed-- to find out where they came from and how they're changing. 930L Lexile. Accelerated Reader AR LG 6.3 2 160219. 20131231. Language and languages. Boake, Kathy. TXKPL