From: | Chris Peters <beta_leonis@...> |
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Date: | Thursday, December 22, 2005, 22:17 |
>From: Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> > >It's a hard set to define. I'm tempted to go with the "second-generation >L1 speakers" thing, but that I suspect locks out dying or dead languages >going through a resurgence. >Would you include Biblical Hebrew as an example of that? It's been resurrected (pardon the overtones) and adapted for diverse situations that it was not ordinarily used for. I'd consider that sort of resurrection-adaptation a sort of "conlang-lite", so to speak. :Chris