I love the subject area of linguistics especially the development of language over time and that's the reason I picked up this book in the first place. I'll admit I did have to look a lot of the terminology up at first but once I got into the swing of things this was such an interesting read on the development of western languages in Europe. It answered questions (in great detail) like when did we stop speaking latin everyday? And why didn't German or French win over English? Was there ever one root langauge?

Definitely not for those who are interested in the history side of things only, this could probably be used as a supplementary text for a linguistics student. Still, good if you're into that type of thing.