Why Languages Are So Different. Popular Linguistics

Human language is the greatest gift of nature! It gives us the ability to communicate, to convey our thoughts over a distance. Thanks to language, we can read books written many centuries ago, and thus, use the knowledge accumulated by... our ancestors and preserve our knowledge for future generations. Without language, humanity would not exist!
How many languages are there on Earth, how are they structured; how and by what laws do they change; why are some related while others are not; what exactly distinguishes the Russian language from English and other languages, and Chinese from Japanese; why does a verb need mood and aspect, and a noun needs cases
Modern linguistics answers these and other questions, engagingly and captivatingly introducing the reader to this field is the author of the book - Vladimir Alexandrovich Plungyan, a renowned linguist and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.