Re: Ethnologue exercise
| From: | nicole perrin <nicole.eap@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 30, 2000, 21:58 |
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Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
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> On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:
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> > Well, since everyone else is doing it, I might as well.
I might as well too. Are we allowed to put up more than one? I have a
bunch of current projects. But here's one. I might be too lazy to do
any more.
Ini (Inyanyi, Peili) [INI]. About 170,000 native speakers and about
5,000 additional speakers in the Republic of Tinta. Spoken by about 97%
of the population of the Tinta Island as well as by about 1% of the
populations of nearby islands. Official language of the Republic of
Tinta, used by schools, government offices, and most businesses.
Considerable dialectal variation; some colloquial varieties of Ini may
barely be mutually intelligible. DIALECTS: Naia, Western Ini,
Nan'anan'an, Nan'ani-Anam. Very limited number of phonemes. VSO.