Here I present: Gaston Lorren, “LINGO: Around Europe in 60 Languages”, 2015.
INTRODUCTION.
There are over 250 languages in Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European linguistic phylum. Three (3) Indo-European subphylum’s: Germanic, Slavic & Romance account for most of the speakers of European languages.
Gaston Dorren, “LINGO: Around Europe in 60 Languages”, 2015 is divided into nine (9) parts. The “table of contents” of the book is shown BELOW.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART ONE: Next of tongue; languages and their families.
1 The life of PIE | Lithuanian.
2 The separated siblings | Finno-Ugric Languages.
3 Pieces of a broken pitcher | Romansh.
4 Mother dearest | French.
5 Know your Slovek from your Slovane | Slavic language.
6 The linguistic orphanage | Balkan languages.
7 The tenth branch | Ossetian.
PART TWO: Past perfect discontinuous; languages and their history.
8 The peaceful expansionist? | German.
9 Portugal’s mother’s tongue | Galician.
10 A language in DK | Danish.
11 The spoils of defeat | Channel Island Norman.
12 Languages of exile | Karaim, Ladino and Yiddish.
13 Frozen in time | Icelandic.
PART THREE: War and peace; languages and politics.
14 The democratic language | Norwegian.
15 Two addresses to the people of Belarus | Belarus(s)ian.
16 Kleinsteinish and its neighbours | Luxembourgish.
17 Longing for languagehood | Scots and Frisian.
18 Much a-du about you, and him | Swedish.
19 Four countries – and more than a club | Catalan.
20 Four languages and zero goodwill | Serbo-Croatian.
PART FOUR: Werds, wirds, wurds; written and spoken.
21 ‘Háček!’ – ‘Bless you’ | Czech..
22 Szczęsny, Pszkit and Korzeniowski | Polish.
23 Broad and slender tweets | Scots Gaelic.
24 Learning your A to Я | Russian.
25 Pin the name on the language | Following the clues.
26 The Iberian machine gun | Spanish.
27 Mountains of dialects | Slovene.
28 Hide and speak? | Shelta and Anglo-Romani.
PART FIVE: Nuts and bolts; languages and their vocabulary.
29 Export/Import | Greek.
30 Arrival in Porto | Portuguese.
31 Meet the Snorbs | Sorbian.
32 From our Vašingtona correspondent | Latvian.
33 Small, sweet, slim, sturdy, sexy, stupid little women | Italian.
34 A snowstorm in a teacup | Sami.
35 Deciphering the language of numbers | Breton.
PART SIX: Talking by the book; languages and their grammar.
36 Gender-bending | Dutch.
37 A case history | Romani.
38 A much-needed merger | Bulgarian-Slovak.
39 Nghwm starts with a C | Welsh.
40 Strictly ergative | Basque.
41 Note to self | Ukrainian.
PART SEVEN: Intensive care; languages on the brink and beyond.
42 Networking in Monaco | Monégasque.
43 A narrow escape | Irish.
44 No laughing matter | Gagauz.
45 The death of a language | Dalmatian.
46 The church of Kernow | Cornish.
47 Back from the brink | Manx.
PART EIGHT: Movers and shakers; linguists who left their mark.
48 Ĺudovít Štúr, the hero linguist | Slovak.
49 The father of Albanology | Albanian.
50 An unexpected standard | Germanic languages.
51 The no-hoper | Esperanto.
52 The national hero who wasn’t | Macedonian.
53 A godless alphabet | Turkish.
PART NINE: Warts and all; linguistic portrait studies.
54 Spell as you speak | Finnish.
55 Romans north of Hadrian’s Wall | Faroese.
56 A meaningful silence | Sign languages.
57 | Armenian.
58 Plain lonely | Hungarian.
59 An Afro-Asiatic in Europe | Maltese.
60 The global headache | English.
