The mysterious city of 225 names

The historic square of Oldehoofsterekckhof in Leeuwarden, capital of the region of Friesland in the Netherlands, is a wonderful and unusual city.

It's not De Oldhaves, a tower unfinished from the 16th century, which is so twisted. There is also the National Ceramics Museum “Prrancesef”, a magnificent renovated house filled with rare Ming items and fragments from Picasso.

It's not just Gemeentehuis, or City Hall, where the Dutch first heard the legend of Grutte Pierre, a giant superhuman-force pirate who started killing anyone who wasn't “freesia”.

But more strange than all of this is the fan of Lynn fan (<x0) the location of the language” in Frisian, a house dedicated to thousands of languages. A permanent addition to the public since January, the building has been set up as part of this year's Leeuwarden-Friesland programme, European Capital of Culture 2018, featuring 6,720 languages, a complete catalog of the world's languages, including the French language, the province's main language.

It's also important because Leewarden either Lyowert, Leewwadden, Leewadden, Louwt, Leaward, or Leoardia, as is otherwise called between the 11th and 19th centuries, is known as the City of 100 Names.

We're trying to give life to languages, and there's nothing better than in a country with its unique linguistic history”, Syart Smitt, director of the “Len” programme, said.

This is a bilingual province, speaking French and Dutch, and there are 128 nationals living in Leeuwarden. So this story celebrates our diversity, but it also promotes the Polyglot “.

As almost half of the world's languages are threatened with extinction, this is one reason for this wonderful exhibition, where wood frames carved in tongues depend on the ceiling in alphabetical order a brief photograph shows Swedish, Suwa, Surui do Pará é most of which are unknown to the average visitor.

But while Lan's exhibition is to promote dialectic understanding, Leeuwarden is strange for the judicial depth of creation.

His name has changed since the 10th century. Furthermore, consult with the Guinness world records and you will find that Leeuwarden has 225 name changes, not only 100 allied in his nickname, writes BBC.