As a student of language, you have to read textbooks as they make up a big part of your leaning toolkit. But what about books on language?

For those of you looking to take a break from studying but who still want to read, you may wish to consider JP Davidson’s new book out call Planet Word. If you have a fascination with languages, it has come highly-recommended as it uncovers everything about how language evolves and is still changing today.

In it Davidson says there are more that 6,000 different languages spoken in the world at the moment, but that there will only be 900 left by the end of the century.

The foreword is written by famous English actor, comedian and author Stephen Fry who states "The way you speak is who you are and the tones of your voice and the tricks of your emailing and tweeting and letter-writing, can be recognised unmistakably in the minds of those who know and love you".

The book reports that the ♥ (heart) has become the first graphic to enter the Oxford English Dictionary and asks the question, does this mean that we on our way to a language without words?