REVIEW OF ROBINSON CRUSOE NOVEL

REVIEW OF ROBINSON CRUSOE

The third son of an English merchant family from York, Robinson Crusoe rejects the comfort and security of his home and against his father’s advice embarks on a life of adventure. “Bent upon seeing the world,” he sets sail from London aboard a ship bound for Africa. En route, he is captured by Turkish pirates and sold into slavery. After managing to escape, he sails to Brazil aboard a Portuguese trader. There he buys a small plantation, but, once again feeling restless, he sails to Africa for slaves. On this voyage he is shipwrecked and finds himself marooned on a small island off... Robinson Crusoe is a beautiful novel that was written by Daniel Defoe, it was first published in 1719. It was arguably the first novel to ever be published which is no suprise given the date! The book really is superbly written throughout and I found it a real pleasure to read. The novel is about 270 pages and contains an epilogue. Daniel Defoe is seen by many to be one of the most famous writers in English Literature and after reading this novel it is easy to see why; I would really recommend it. The novel is actually a fiction autobiography about the man named Robinson Crusoe. He is a man who is the sole survivor of a shipwreck just off Venezuela and he encounters many things across his journey before actually being rescued. He is stranded on an island that is no way near any ships and the island is completely uninhabited. Robinson Crusoe can't stand it at first but he then manages to make this horrible island into a paradise of his own. He was stranded on this island for 24 years with out any company but he then one day rescued a prisoner and things change. The novel is supposedly based on facts and so is a fictional novel. I really found the plot line to be superb throughout the novel and I found it easy to follow. The novel is beautifully written and very well structured really adding to the excellence. If you like tropical island get away novels or films rather like "The lord of the flies" I would really recommend this novel.

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INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILY

Indo-European Family

Language Family is a group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor (proto language)

What relates languages into one ancestor?

DIALECT

VOCABULARY

PRONUNCIATION

GRAMMAR&STRUCTURE

There are 225 language families recorded worlwide

Major/prominent Languge Families

By number of native speakers

This is a list of the top ten families with wide recognition as phylogenetic units, in terms of numbers of native speakers, listed with their core geographic areas.

1. Indo-European languages (Europe, Southwest to South Asia, America, Oceania)

2. Sino-Tibetan languages (East Asia)

3. Niger-Congo languages (Sub-Saharan Africa)

4. Afro-Asiatic languages (North Africa to Horn of Africa, Southwest Asia)

5. Austronesian languages (Oceania, Madagascar, maritime Southeast Asia)

6. Dravidian languages (South Asia)

7. Altaic languages (Central Asia, Northern Asia, Anatolia, Siberia)

8. Austro-Asiatic languages (mainland Southeast Asia)

9. Tai-Kadai languages (Southeast Asia)

10. Japonic languages (Japan)

By variety

According to the numbers in Ethnologue, the largest language families in terms of number of languages are the following. Some families are controversial, and in many the language count varies between researchers.

1. Niger-Congo (1,514 languages)

2. Austronesian (1,268 languages)

3. Trans–New Guinea (564 languages) (number disputed)

4. Indo-European (449 languages)

5. Sino-Tibetan (403 languages)

6. Afro-Asiatic (375 languages)

7. Nilo-Saharan (204 languages)

8. Pama-Nyungan (178 languages)

9. Oto-Manguean (174 languages) (number varies; Lyle Campbell counts 27)

10. Austro-Asiatic (169 languages)

11. Sepik-Ramu (100 languages)

12. Tai-Kadai (76 languages)

13. Tupi (76 languages)

14. Dravidian (73 languages)

15. Mayan (69 languages)

Indo-European

Language Family

a family of several hundred related languages and dialects, including most major languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau (Southwest Asia), Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent (South Asia).

Indo refers to Indian sub continent

European refers to Europe

There are 449 languages in this family according to 2005 Ethnologue