Contents

Introduction -- 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 Slovakian -- The lands of Hungarian and Rumanian languages -- The Balkan Peninsula and its Serbian inhabitants -- Language problems of the Balkan Peninsula -- The geographical case for Turkey -- The peoples of Turkey -- Summary and applications -- Appendix A: German settlements in Russia -- Appendix B: The Balkan states before and after the wars of 1912-1913 -- Appendix C: Classification of languages spoken in Europe -- Appendix D: A selected bibliography -- Appendix E: Key to place names.