The foundations -- The boundaries of French and Germanic languages in Belgium and Luxemburg -- The Franco-German linguistic boundary in Alsace-Lorraine and Switzerland -- Borderlands of Italian language -- Scandinavian and Baltic languages -- The area of Polish speech -- Bohemian, Moravian and...

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