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Lingo, around Europe in sixty languages, Gaston Dorren ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson and Alison Edwards (translation)

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Lingo, around Europe in sixty languages, Gaston Dorren ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson and Alison Edwards (translation)

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-286) and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lingo

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bibliography

Oclc number

903763393

Responsibility statement

Gaston Dorren ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson and Alison Edwards (translation)

Sub title

around Europe in sixty languages

Summary

"Lingo takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty European languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and differences ... Lingo takes us into the remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the favored tongue; 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"--Jacket flap

Table Of Contents

What Europeans speak -- Next of tongue : Languages and their families -- Past perfect discontinuous : Languages and their history -- War and peace : Languages and politics -- Werds, wirds, wurds ... : Written and spoken -- Nuts and bolts : Languages and their vocabulary -- Talking by the book : Languages and their grammar -- Intensive care : Languages on the brink and beyond -- Movers and shakers : Linguists who left their mark -- Warts and all : Linguistic portrait studies

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