Summary Writing is a relative latecomer to the history of language. This program tracks its emergence in Mesopotamia, China, and Mesoamerica and its spread down through the millennia via conquest-usually violent, sometimes benign-and colonization. The creation of creoles and pidgins resulting from the interaction of specific populations is also addressed, and speculation is made about the first things to be written down.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Noam Chomsky Hua Lin John McWhorter Merritt Ruhlen
Genres : Documentary
Release date : Apr 24, 2008
Countries of origin : Canada
Language : English
Production companies : Syncopated Productions
Summary Writing is a relative latecomer to the history of language. This program tracks its emergence in Mesopotamia, China, and Mesoamerica and its spread down through the millennia via conquest-usually violent, sometimes benign-and colonization. The creation of creoles and pidgins resulting from the interaction of specific populations is also addressed, and speculation is made about the first things to be written down.
Genres : Documentary
Release date : Apr 24, 2008
Countries of origin : Canada
Language : English
Production companies : Syncopated Productions