Ljudski govor i jezici

Human Speech and Languages is not a separate, special booklet, but part of Kulundžić's broader project. In the introductory note, the author explicitly states that this book is actually the introductory chapter of a much more extensive, already prepared work The Book about the Book, in which he intends to cover the entire issue of the origin of the book up to the invention of the printing press. This immediately makes its real scope clearer: the topic is not only language in the narrow sense, but a broader arc from speech and language to writing, books and the history of the transmission of knowledge.

That is why this edition is particularly interesting. In a short and clear form, it opens up a large topic - how humans speak, how languages ​​arise and differ, and how the need to write down, preserve and transmit words develops from oral expression. Kulundžić's style is not academically closed, but lively, concise and aimed at a wider readership, which makes this book attractive even today.

For collectors and lovers of older cultural and historical publications, it is also important to note that the book marks the beginning of the author's later, much more broadly developed interest in the history of writing and books. This is why Human Speech and Languages has both independent value and added weight as an early part of a larger authorial concept.