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_aP380 _b.D6713 2015 |
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| 100 | 1 | _aDorren, Gaston, | |
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_aLingo : _baround Europe in sixty languages / _cGaston Dorren ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson, and Alison Edwards (translation) |
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_aNew York : _bAtlantic Monthly Press, _c[2015] |
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| 264 | 4 | _c©2015. | |
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_a303 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c22 cm. |
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_atext _btxt _2rdacontent. |
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_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia. |
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_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier. |
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| 500 | _aOriginally published: London : Profile Books, 2014. | ||
| 500 | _aBased on the author's Taaltoerisme : feiten en verhalen over 53 Europese talen. | ||
| 500 | _aMap on lining paper. | ||
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 285-286) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aWhat Europeans speak -- Next of tongue : languages and their families -- Past perfect discontinuous : languages and their history -- War and peace : languages and politics -- Werds, wird, wurds ... : written and spoken -- Nuts and bolts : languages and their vocabulary -- Talking by the talk : 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. | |
| 520 | _a"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. | ||
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_aLanguage and culture _zEurope. |
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_aEurope _xLanguages. |
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| 650 | 0 | _aPhilology. | |
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_aLanguage and languages _xVariation. |
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_aDorren, Gaston. _tTaaltoerisme. |
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_aAudring, Jenny, _d1977- |
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| 700 | 1 | _aWatson, Frauke, | |
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_aEdwards, Alison, _d1983- |
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