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Statute of Kilkenny 464-465
Statute of Pleading 467
UK regional dialects 514n
vernacular literature 461
world language 7, 13, 20, 103, 179, 378, 380, 476, 510-517, 525-533
English as a Global Language (Crystal) 543
Enheduanna, princess of Agade and poetess in Sumerian, 51, 60
Enlightenment era 374-375, 394n, 448
Ennius, Quintus, Latin poet, 17, 252, 280, 299, 330n
Enuma eliš, Babylonian creation epic 61
Ephorus, Greek historian 276
Epidemics 336-338, 506
degrees of immunity 22-24, 313
Epigrams (Martial) 523
Erasmus, Desiderius, Dutch humanist 329
Eritrea 36
Esarhaddon, king 83
Esperanto 171
Estonia 432-433, 443, 445
Ethiopia 36, 80, 92, 387
Ethiopian (language of Kush) 131
Ethnologue 412n, 576n2
Etruscans 45, 241-242, 285n, 290
Euclid, Greek mathematician, 182
Euphrates 39, 40n
Euripides, Greek dramatist, 254n, 258, 271
Europe 46, 273, 314
cultural change 275
Dante’s linguistic picture 320
global empires 380
language distribution 274-275, 331
Muslim invasion 306
spread of printing 326-327, 472-473, 540
European Union 19n, 515-516
Eusebius, Church historian 256
Excerpta (Nennius) 311
Exploits of Ninurta 55, 57-58
Fa-Xian, Chinese pilgrim 159, 193, 201, 207
Fadeyev, Rostislav, Russian general 434
Faliscan 242
Fars 43, 56
Farsi see Persia, language
Fatimid dynasty 100
Felipe (Philip) II, king of Spain 100, 340, 367
Felipillo, Peruvian interpreter 342-343
Fenni 280
Feringhee 497
Fertility see Population growth
Filipino see Tagalog
Finland 423, 432, 433
Firth, J.R., British linguist 20-21
Folangji (Europeans) 148
Forjando Patria (Gamío) 375
Fotudeng, Buddhist monk 139
France 12
and Catholicism 408, 415, 416n
colonies 415-416, 478, 482, 486, 519-520
culture 407, 409-410, 511, 514, 520
enclaves in the Holy Land 408
first empire 411-416
Nouvelle-France 412-414, 486, 492-495
population growth 407, 409
Revolution 416
second empire 416-421
varieties of Romance languages 405
France, Anatole, French writer 403
François I, king of France 326, 404, 519
Franks 20, 275, 306-307, 316, 400, 404, 457
Free enterprise 339, 457-458, 479, 481-482, 496, 513, 519, 550
Freedom of speech 549-550
French 179, 300, 331, 405-406, 472
colonizing language 325n, 380, 400, 411-414, 446, 528-533
Creole 415-416
and diplomacy 410-411
in Europe 404-411
La francophonie 403, 420-421, 532, 535, 540
Norman French 458-461, 464, 465-468 see also Anglo-Norman
Ordinance of Villers-Cotterěts 404, 409
retreat of 407n
Romance language 404-405, 529
typography 472
French Equatorial Africa 418
French Guiana 416
French West Africa 418
Friedrich II 337
Friesland 313, 456
Funan 204, 217
Gabriel II, Orthodox Patriarch 92
Gadsden Purchase 574n17
Gaelic see Irish
Galatians 293-294
Galicia (west of Ukraine) 432
Galician language of Spain 332, 382, 384
Galilee 86-87
Gallo-Greek 287, 293-294
Gama, Vasco de, Portuguese mariner 385
Gambia 508
Gamío, M., Mexican patriot 375
Gandhara 85
Garcilaso, Inca see Vega, Garcilaso de la
Gaspirali (Gasprinsky), Ismail Bey 440-441
Gaulish 24n, 274, 282, 285-288, 289-295, 299, 301-304, 404
Gallo-Roman inscriptions 287
Gauls 183, 241, 243, 276
end of Roman empire 305-307
incursions 292-293
Roman conquest 301-302, 556
spread of Latin 304
see also Celts
Ge’ez 36, 92, 255
Genghis (Chinggiz) Khan, Mongol conqueror 106, 142, 151, 425, 555
Geoffrey of Monmouth, British chronicler 459n
Georgia (Russia) 433-435, 442
Georgians 50
Gepids 310
Germania (Tacitus) 273, 277, 280, 288
Germanic languages 273, 277n, 278, 289n, 307, 314, 318, 320n, 400, 475
have not often spread 306-308, 400, 447
Germanic invasions 304-309
German 317, 446-449, 472-473, 573n13
colonizing language 325n, 492n
Low German 312
world language 404n, 528-529, 531
Germany 12, 274, 277-278
book-publishing 326, 412-413
colonies