Lingo

Introduction

What Europeans speak

PART ONE Next of tongue

1 The life of PIE | Lithuanian

2 The separated siblings | Finno-Ugric Languages

3 Pieces of a broken pitcher | Romansh

4 Mummy dearest | French

5 Know your Slovek from your Slovane | Slavic languages

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 Szczesny, 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 | Estonian

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 |

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 Հայերեն բադակտուց | Armenian

58 Plain lonely | Hungarian

59 An Afro-Asiatic in Europe | Maltese

60 The global headache | English

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