Lingo
a language spotters' guide to Europe
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Author
Contributions
- Audring, Jenny, 1977- - Contributor
- Watson, Frauke - Contributor
- Edwards, Alison, 1983- - Contributor
Publication
2014 - Profile Books, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
76,000 words, Guess
Page Count
304 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL37017704M
- ISBN-139781781254165
- ISBN-101781254168
- OCLC Control Number894201709
- OCLC Control Number899289935
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Numberlingolanguagespo0000dorr
- Library of Congress Control Number2016479832
Classifications
- DDC400
- LCCP112 .D67 2014
Description
"Spins the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty European languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and differences ... [and taking] us into today's remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word 'you' in conversation"--Amazon.com.
Description
Welcome to Europe as you've never known it before, seen through the peculiarities of its languages and dialects. Combining linguistics and cultural history, Gaston Dorren takes us on an intriguing tour of the continent, from Proto-Indo-European (the common ancestor of most European languages) to the rise and rise of English, via the complexities of Welsh plurals and Czech pronunciation. Along the way we learn why Esperanto will never catch on, how the language of William the Conqueror survives in the Channel Islands and why Finnish is the easiest European language. Surprising, witty and full of extraordinary facts, this book will change the way you think about the languages around you.--
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- Lingo: a language spotters' guide to Europe
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