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Several linguistic issues have arisen in relation to the spelling of the words euro and cent in the many languages of the member states of the European Union, as well as in relation to grammar and the formation of plurals.
The most spoken second or foreign languages in the EU are English, French, German, Spanish, and Russian. In the table, boxes coloured light blue mean that the language is an official language of the country, while the main language spoken in the country is coloured dark blue. Knowledge of English.
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Writing systems
(Sources and further information for this section: Haarmann 1991, Grzega 2006) Writing was introduced to Europe by the Greeks, and from there also brought to the Romans (6th century BC). There are four alphabets in regular use in the areas generally considered Europe. The Latin alphabet was developed into several scripts. In the early years of Europe, the Carolingian minuscules were the most important variety of the Latin script. From this two branches developed, the Gothic/Fracture/German tr...
Sound features
(Sources and further information for this section: Haarmann 1973, Asher 1994, Price 1998, Grzega 2006) The sound systems of languages may differ considerably between languages. European languages can thus rather be characterized negatively, e.g. by the absence of click sounds. One could also think of specific prosodic features, such as tonal accents. But there are also tonal languages in Europe: Serbo-Croatian (e.g. lètī ‘he flies, is flying’ with long rising accent vs. lêta ‘years’ with long...
Grammatical features
(Sources and further information for this section: Asher 1994, Price 1998, Haspelmath 2001, Heine/Kuteva 2006) As a general introductory remark we can distinguish between three structural typesof languages: 1. isolating(i.e. grammatical/sentence functions are expressed through analytic means and relatively strict word-order rules, e.g. the strict S-V order rule in English), 2. agglutinating (i.e. grammatical/sentence functions are expressed through affixes, with one affix expressing exactly o...
(Sources and further information for this section: Haarmann 1975, Haarmann 1993, Grzega 2006) Three linguae francaeare prominent in European history: 1. (Medieval and Neo-) Latin with a gradual decline as lingua franca since the late Middle Ages, when the vernacular languages gained more and more importance (first language academy in Italy in 1582/...
(Sources and further information for this section: Haarmann 1975, Haarmann 1993, Grzega 2006) In the Middle Ages the two most important definitory elements of Europe were Christianitas and Latinitas. Thus language—at least the supranational language—played an elementary role. This changed with the spread of the national languages in official contex...
(Sources and further information for this section: Stephens 1976, Price 1998, Ahrens 2003, Grzega 2006) Despite the importance of English as an international lingua franca in Europe, Europe is also linguistically diverse, and minority languages are protected, e.g. by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languagesfounded in the 1990s. This ...
(Sources and further information for this section: Siguan 2002, Ahrens 2003, Grzega 2006) France is the origin of two laws, or decrees, concerning language: the Ordonnance de Villers-Cotterêts (1239), which says that every document in France should be written in French (i.e. not in Latin nor Occitan) and the French Loi Toubon, which aims at elimina...
Wolfgang Abbe et al.: Bibliographie Europäische Sprachwissenschaft, 50 vols. Hamburg: Loges 2011.Rüdiger Ahrens (ed.): Europäische Sprachenpolitik / European Language Policy, Heidelberg: Winter 2003.R. E. Asher et al. (eds.): The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Oxford: Pergamon 1994.Roger Axtell: Do's and Taboos Around the World, White Plains: Benjamin 1993.and language policies , as these are the responsibility of the individual EU countries. n 2016, over I one third (35.4 %) of adults in the EU -28 did not know any foreign languages. A similar proportoi n (35.2 %) declared that they knew one foreign language, while just over one fifth ( 21 %) said they knew two foreign languages.
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It would make more sense to list the linguistic issues about euro in Japanese than in a fictional language like Esperanto, Klingon or Quenya. -- Vuo ( talk ) 22:12, 26 November 2007 (UTC) Esperanto is not a "fictional language", it's a "constructed language", note the distinction.
Euro English, [1] Euro-English [2] or European English, less commonly known as EU English, Continental English and EU Speak, is a group of dialects of the English language as used in continental Europe, based on common mistranslations and the technical jargon of the European Union (EU) and the native languages of its non-native, English ...
