Lingo
Subtitle: around Europe in sixty languages
By: Gaston Dorren ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson, and Alison Edwards (translation)
Contributors: Dorren, Gaston; Audring, Jenny, 1977- author; Watson, Frauke, author; Edwards, Alison, 1983- translator
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780802124074
Subjects: Languages; Philology; Language and languages; Variation; Language and culture
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.
Notes: Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2014.

Based on the author's Taaltoerisme : feiten en verhalen over 53 Europese talen.

Map on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: What Europeans speak; title: Next of tongue : languages and their families; title: Past perfect discontinuous : languages and their history; title: War and peace : languages and politics; title: Werds, wird, wurds ... : written and spoken; title: Nuts and bolts : languages and their vocabulary; title: Talking by the talk : languages and their grammar; title: Intensive care : languages on the brink and beyond; title: Movers and shakers : linguists who left their mark; title: Warts and all : linguistic portrait studies.