Central Europe - Lonely Planet

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One of the rewarding things about travelling through Central Europe is the rich variety of cuisine, customs, architecture and history. The flipside of course is that you’ll encounter a number of very different languages. Most languages spoken in Central Europe belong to what’s known as the Indo-European language family, believed to have originally developed from one language spoken thousands of years ago.

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Coverage Includes: Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Slovene.