LANGUAGES OF THE HAGUE

The Hague, multi-ethnic and multilingual city par excellence, is a veritable linguistic goldmine. For all that, nobody knows how many languages are spoken there. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade decided to find out by seeking out its speakers and interv
iewing them about their native languages. Doing so not only taught her a great deal about all the languages she encountered - ranging from Russian to Finnish and Frisian, and a wide variety of languages in between - but also made her discover what ma
ny of their speakers are concerned with: how to pass on their native language to their children. Languages of The Hague is a collection of columns on languages and language which were published between 2016 and 2018 in the weekly newspaper Den Haag C
entraal.

Born in The Hague, and recently returned to the city of her birth, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade has a chair in English Sociohistorical Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.