Babel No More (53 page)

New Testament,
58
–59,
75
,
76

New York, N.Y.,
7
,
10
,
67
,
80
,
119
,
153
–54

New York Times,
79
n

New York University,
158

Nietzsche, Friedrich,
85

Nigeria,
8

Nilep, Chad,
89

Norwegian language,
75
,
81
,
97

nouns,
11
,
34
,
82
,
239

Nurmekund, Pent,
100
,
105

nursery rhymes,
79

Obler, Loraine,
161
–62,
164
–66,
168
–71,
175
,
176
,
178
,
212
,
222
,
287

O’Brien, Ira T.,
74

obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD),
228
,
291

Oceanica languages,
42

Odyssey, The
(Homer),
75

Olympic Games of 1968 (Mexico),
95

“On the Extraordinary Powers of Cardinal Mezzofanti as a Linguist” (Watts),
41

On the Track of Unknown Animals
(Heuvelmans),
248
–49

oral skills, assessing of,
25
–26

Oregon Health and Science University,
234

Owen, Steven,
149
–50

oxytocin,
237

Paget, Polyxena,
5
–6,
37

Papiamentu language,
106

Papua New Guinea,
9

Parkinson’s disease,
237

parts of speech,
4
,
11

Pascual-Leone, Alvaro,
86

Pasti, Franco,
57
–62,
242

Patchett, Ann,
21
–22

Pattanayak, D. P.,
191

Peace Corps,
162

Peek, Kim,
229

Peguan language,
43
,
138

Pennsylvania, University of,
149

Perecman, Ellen,
139

Persian language,
4
,
31
,
42
,
43
,
58
,
61
,
119
,
120
,
197

“Peruvian” language,
43

Philippines,
85
n

Philological Society,
41

philology,
5
,
42
,
131
,
141
,
153

phrenology,
77
–78

piano playing,
23

pidgin languages,
7
,
36

pilots,
54
–55

Pimsleur, Paul,
134
,
284

Pimsleur method,
134
,
239

Pinker, Steven,
226

Pius IX, Pope,
59
–60

Poeppel, David,
158
,
287

Polish language,
4
,
5
,
35
,
43
,
75
n,
207
,
262

Pollock, Sheldon,
200
,
201
,
290

“Polyglot, the,”
150

Polyglot in the Library, A
(Pasti),
57
,
61

Polyglot of Europe contest,
253
–57

Polyglot of Flanders
contest,
247
–48,
250
–53,
253

polyglots,
5
,
15
,
17
,
25
,
29
–30,
41
–42

psychotic,
49
–50,
280

see also
hyperpolyglots

Polyglottery Today
(Gunnemark),
92

Porter, E. X.,
79
n

Portuguese language,
4
,
18
,
30
,
39
,
43
,
106
,
119

positron emission tomography (PET),
157

Prasad, Chandrabhan,
201
–2

pronunciation,
9
,
11
,
22
,
36
,
37
,
40
,
89
,
158

perfect,
43

social, gender and geographic variations in,
45

Provençal language,
47
n,
118
,
119

psychosis,
49
–50

Punjabi language,
47
n,
194

Qing dynasty,
150

quadrilingualism,
190

Quakers,
59

Quechua language,
31
,
42

Rain Man,
229

Real Academia Española,
208

recombination,
11

Reiterer, Susanne,
231
–32,
234
,
235
,
292

Renaissance,
28

Renkema, Jan,
207

Respighi, Father,
32

Reuters,
106
–7

Ricci, Matteo,
35

Rich, Katherine Russell,
86

Rigby,
Christopher Palmer,
47
n

Rio de Janeiro,
10

Rochester, University of,
241

Romaic language,
43

Roman Catholic Church,
32
,
33

baptism in,
59
n

books banned by,
59

confession in,
35
–36,
37
–38

conversion to,
59

evangelism and missionary work in,
137
–38

excesses of,
46

feast days in,
137
–38

Propaganda Fide of,
137
–38,
261

Romance languages,
34
,
44
,
96
,
115
,
119
,
120
,
218
,
254

Romanian language,
4
,
104
,
119
,
255

Romani language,
35

Romanticism,
41
,
46

Rome,
3
,
4
,
16
,
33
,
41
,
57
,
59
,
137

Rosetta Stone,
239

Rugh, William,
45

Russell, Charles William,
41
–44,
45
–46,
48
,
100
,
137
–38,
222
,
267
,
285
,
294

Russia,
17

Russian language,
5
,
8
,
17
,
23
,
30
,
35
,
43
,
74
,
102
,
109
,
110
,
124
,
137

study of,
127
–29,
251

Russian revolution,
17

Ruthenian language,
42
,
153

RWTH Aachen University,
171

Saami language,
109

St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth,
41

St. Petersburg,
17
,
74

Sakakibara, Yo,
86
,
88

“Salamanic” language,
74

Samaritan language,
75
,
76

Sanskrit language,
42
,
47
n,
77
,
108
,
119
,
149
,
194
–97