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An edition of Lingo (2014)

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a language spotters' guide to Europe

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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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Profile Books, Profile Books Limited
Language
English
Pages
304

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Subjects
Languages, Philology, Language and languages, Variation, Language and culture, Europe, languages, Europe, social life and customs
Places
Europe

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Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages
Dec 13, 2016, Grove Press
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Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
2015, Profile Books Limited
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Lingo: around Europe in sixty languages
2015
in English
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Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages
2015, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English
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2014, Profile Books, Profile Books Limited
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Table of Contents

pt. ONE Next of tongue
Languages and their families
1. The life of PIE Lithuanian
2. The separated siblings Finno-Ugric Languages
3. Pieces of a broken pitcher Romansh
4. Mummy dearest French
5. Know your Slovek from your Slovane Slavic languages
6. The linguistic orphanage Balkan languages
7. The tenth branch Ossetian
pt. TWO Past perfect discontinuous
Languages and their history
8. The peaceful expansionist? German
9. Portugal's mother's tongue Galician
10. A language in DK Danish
11. The spoils of defeat Channel Island Norman
12. Languages of exile Karaim, Ladino and Yiddish
13. Frozen in time Icelandic
pt. THREE War and peace
Languages and politics
14. The democratic language Norwegian
15. Two addresses to the people of Belarus Belarus(s)ian
16. Kleinsteinish and its neighbours Luxembourgish
17. Longing for languagehood Scots and Frisian
18. Much a-du about you, and him Swedish
19. Four countries
and more than a club Catalan
20. Four languages and zero goodwill Serbo-Croatian
pt. FOUR Werds, wirds, wurds ...
Written and spoken
21. `Hacek!'
`Bless you' Czech
22. Szczesny, Pszkit and Korzeniowski Polish
23. Broad and slender tweets Scots Gaelic
24. Learning your A to R Russian
25. Pin the name on the language Estonian
26. The Iberian machine gun Spanish
27. Mountains of dialects Slovene
28. Hide and speak? Shelta and Anglo-Romani
pt. FIVE Nuts and bolts
Languages and their vocabulary
29. Export/import Greek
30. Arrival in Porto Portuguese
31. Meet the Snorbs Sorbian
32. From our Vasingtona correspondent Latvian
33. Small, sweet, slim, sturdy, sexy, stupid little women talian
34. A snowstorm in a teacup Sami
35. Deciphering the language of numbers Breton
pt. SIX Talking by the book
Languages and their grammar
36. Gender-bending Dutch
37. A case history Romani
38. A much-needed merger Bulgarian-Slovak
39. Nghwm starts with a C Welsh
40. Strictly ergative Basque
41. Note to self Ukrainian
pt. SEVEN Intensive care
Languages on the brink and beyond
42. Networking in Monaco Monegasque
43. A narrow escape Irish
44. No laughing matter Gagauz
45. The death of a language Dalmatian
46. The church of Kernow Cornish
47. Back from the brink Manx
pt. EIGHT Movers and shakers
Linguists who left their mark
48. Ludovit Stur, the hero linguist Slovak
49. The father of Albanology Albanian
50. An unexpected standard Germanic languages
51. The no-hoper Esperanto
52. The national hero who wasn't Macedonian
53. A godless alphabet Turkish
pt. NINE Warts and all
Linguistic portrait studies
54. Spell as you speak Finnish
55. Romans north of Hadrian's Wall Faroese
56. A meaningful silence Sign languages
57. Armenian
58. Plain lonely Hungarian
59. An Afro-Asiatic in Europe Maltese
60. The global headache English.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
400
Library of Congress
P112 .D67 2014, P380

The Physical Object

Pagination
304 pages
Number of pages
304

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OL37017704M
Internet Archive
lingolanguagespo0000dorr
ISBN 10
1781254168, 1782831398
ISBN 13
9781781254165, 9781782831396
LCCN
2016479832
OCLC/WorldCat
894201709

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"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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