The Spanish Language, together with Portuguese, Catalan and Basque

By William J. Entwistle

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571064043
• ISBN13: 9780571064045
• Release Date: January 1962
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Seminal work

This book is out of print and must be sought in libraries (often university)and second hand book dealers. If you can find it to buy-do so. It is a well-written, detailed account of the Iberic languages, beginning in the ancient world with a latin base influenced by Basque (a fellow, non-Romance Iberic language),ancient Germanic dialects,arabic and the modern French and English languages(e.g."El Esmokin":tuxedo). The amateur might be initially lost within Entwistle's references to yods,bi-labials and fricatives (the mechanics of speaking that influence [mis]pronounciation).Again, this book is a must-have for anyone wishing to study the origins of this sub-group of languages, one of which (Spanish)has grown enormously in influence since this book was originally published in the 1930s.