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Author Dorren, Gaston, author.

Title Lingo : around Europe in sixty languages / Gaston Dorren [and three others]

Publication Info. New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press an imprint of Grove Atlantic, [2015]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1659956~S1
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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.
Europe -- Languages.
Philology.
Language and languages -- Variation.
ISBN 9780802124074
0802124070
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