This summer I return to Lithuania for the second time in as many years (and will be back again next summer), so part of my trip preparation has been stressing over how to most economically turn my dollars into litai. This research is using a trip to Lithuania as a specific baseline, but I think [...]
Vincas sent me a photo he took of a sign in Užupis naming the republic in all five historical languages of the city:
UŽUPIO RESPUBLIKA (Lithuanian)
ЗАРАЧАНСКАЯ РЭСПУБЛІКА (Belarusian)
רעפּובליק פון זאַרעטשע (Yiddish)
РЕСПУБЛИКА ЗАРЕЧЬЕ (Russian)
REPUBLIKA ZARZECZA (Polish)
Here we have four different grammatical ways of expressing “Republic of Užupis.” The Lithuanian and Polish take two nouns and create a [...]