Lingua: Across Europe in 69 languages

Lingua(Blurb) What is the connection between Jan Smit and a Ferrari? Why do the Swiss speak such a weird type German? What language died out from an explosion, and which had a near-death experience? Lingua takes you on a journey along more than 60 European languages.

How? "Witty" (The Wall Street Journal). "Amusing and very readable" (El País). "Learned and pleasantly ironic" (The Guardian). And NRC Handelsblad concluded: "Delicious book. [...] Very well done."

Lingua is not only about the languages of Europe, it has also appeared in many of them. First in Dutch (as Taaltoerisme), then in English (as Lingo – sold 50 000 copies), Spanish, Norwegian and Swedish (Lingo), Russian (Lingvo) and German (Sprachen). With each version, the book got richer, and the very richest is this supplemented, revised, improved, comprehensive, to put it briefly, the final edition: Lingua.

Did you know that the word fetish comes from Portuguese, and the English word tackle from Dutch? That fappeln Luxembourgs is for 'constantly straying from the subject' – a word that we would gladly borrow. Lingua contains dozens of such borrowed, borrowed and life-worthy words.

 

Author: Gaston Dorren

Theme: Linguistics

Language: Dutch

Publisher: Atheneum

Year: 2017

Number of pages: 320

ISBN: 9789025307899

Other works by the author: (1) Babel: De 20 reuzentalen van de wereld, (2) Vakantie in eigen taal: What's beautiful, crazy and wrong about our Dutch

Source: https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/athenaeum/boek/lingua/


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Source language: Nederlands (nl)


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