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Europe of a Hundred Tongues

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

There are over 50 million speakers of lesser-used languages in Europe - from Breton to Basque, Gaelic to Galician. Billy Kay explores the reasons for the historic erosion of these languages, and today's rebirth of interest in the linguistic mosaic of Europe.
Producer Michael Shaw

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Michael Shaw
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