Lingo

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.

subjects: Languages,  Philology,  Language and languages,  Variation,  Language and culture,  Europe, languages,  Europe, social life and customs,  Languages in contact

Places: Europe