Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages Paperback 0802125719 9780802125712 Gaston Dorren

from jkdavies

I like reading about linguistics, and the development of language. This book was interesting but not really satisfying as it felt like it was only scratching the surface in it's very short chapters. Worth dipping into again but probably not a full re-read.

from akblanchard

In sixty brief chapters, Gaston Dorren's Lingo takes readers on a whirlwind tour of European languages, from the "big five" Romance languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian), to more obscure tongues such as Slovene, Manx, and Gagauz. The book is intended to be breezy, anecdota...

from espadana

A fun little book. A trip through all the European languages using each one to illustrate language families, how they evolved, how they influenced each other and the many oddities and similarities between them. Not an in-depth analysis by any means, but full of interesting points and well written.

from espadana

A fun little book. A trip through all the European languages using each one to illustrate language families, how they evolved, how they influenced each other and the many oddities and similarities between them. Not an in-depth analysis by any means, but full of interesting points and well written.

from starbox

"The stories about Europe's scores of languages are compelling",, 25 December 2015 This review is from: Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Hardcover) An interesting tour around the languages of Europe, from Faroese to Armenian to sign language to Esperanto. The author looks at why some ...