Tore Janson (born 1936) is a

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linguist. Janson was professor of Latin at the University of Gothenburg, and later became professor of African languages at the same alma mater. He retired in 2001, but has since been affiliated with the University of Stockholm. He devoted much of his time and publishing activities to the way languages change as well as the relationship between language and society.Author profile at Norstedts publishers
, translated from Swedish, retrieved 20 Dec 2011 He is the author of the international bestsellers ''Speak: A Short History of Languages'' and ''A Natural History of Latin''.

Works

English * ''Speak: A Short History of Languages'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. * ''A Natural History of Latin'', Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004. * ''The History of Languages: An Introduction'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Swedish * ''Latin Kulturen, historien, språket'', Wahlström & Widstrand, 2002 * ''Språken och historien'' (transl. language and history), Stockholm: Norstedts, 2008. * ''Språkens historia. En upptäcktsresa i tid och rum'' (transl. Language's history, a discovery journey across time and space), Stockholm: Norstedts, 2010. * ''Germanerna'', Stockholm: Norstedts, 2013.

References

External links

Profile at Stockholm University

Author profile at Norstedts publishers
1936 births Living people Linguists from Sweden Academic staff of the University of Gothenburg {{Sweden-academic-bio-stub