Lingo : around Europe in sixty languages /
"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,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press,
[2015]
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| Summary: | "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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2014. Based on the author's Taaltoerisme : feiten en verhalen over 53 Europese talen. Map on endpapers. |
| Physical Description: | 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-286) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780802124074 : 0802124070 : |