How languages live and change, by what signs it is possible to determine that they are related — this is discussed in the book, awarded at the end of 2011 with the Enlightener Prize.
And Vladimir Plungyan, Doctor of Philology, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, writes that in some languages there are whistling, clicking, hissing, guttural, wheezing sounds. That there are languages with 20 or even 30 cases, and there are not only two or three, but also four or five (in Dagestan and Australian), and even 15-20 (in some African) genera … Now, in an era of rapid mixing languages in the media and social networks, to understand their logic, grammar, relationship and diversity is relevant and promising, perhaps more than ever.
AST-PRESS BOOK, 272 p.