One Language for the World

Dr. Mario Andrew Pei linguist teacher and author of many books and articles on language released this 1961 album in order to educate people on language. In addition to about 3000 "natural" languages spoken today he notes there are at least 700 constructed languages created since the 17th century--computer programming and Esperanto are two examples. Languages whose history and sound Pei presents on this album include Greek Latin English French Spanish Portuguese Italian German Russian Chinese Finnish Russells Suma Peanos Flexionless Latin and Interlingua. The liner notes provide Peis biography and a transcript of the recording.

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