Description |
303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Note |
Maps on endpapers. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-286) and index. |
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. |
Subject |
Language and culture -- Europe.
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Europe -- Languages.
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Philology.
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Language and languages -- Variation.
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ISBN |
9780802124074 |
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0802124070 |
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