grumbles and a cool find.

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>There's precious little around that I could find. The dead-tree info I
>have
>(which is all I have on modern Frisian) amounts to:
>
>A Dutch-[West] Frisian dictionary, published by AFûK, I think.
>A quaint little pamphlet entitled "Notes on Frisian", which includes some
>guessed-at grammar (all I could find).
>A multilingual dictionary, "Snaak Friisk!", with English, Danish, German
>and
>5 varieties of Frisian.
>
>There are other more worthy tomes, I'm sure, but my Dutch is not that good
>that I could cope with a 20-volume Dutch-Frisian dictionary.
This is why I think some rich benefactor should fund an electronic
database of linguistic info on minority languages like Frisian, for the
good of all mankind (Well at least those who have access to the internet).
While my schools library is decent, it doesnt have very many grammars of
languages, except major ones like Japanese. Although I found a book about
various oceanic languages.
>
>
>James
>
>PS The site Jim Grossman mentioned, "A Web of Online Dictionaries", seems
>to
>have links to a lot of interesting grammars as well the dicts. However,
>the
>only Frisian one is a German guide to Öömrang North Frisian. Westerlauwer
>Frisian grammar is hard to get...
Odd hmm, perhaps I should look sometime.

Anyway, the cool find in the subject is about a gem I found in my school's
library today. My professor was sick, so I didnt have class, and decided
to go to the library. In the linguistics section (surprisingly there's a
lot of books there for such a tiny library), i found a book on the world's
writing systems. the info is: The World's Writing Systems, Edited by Peter
T. Daniels and William Bright. Printed by the Oxford University Press, and
the date it was published was 1996. It's pretty thick (920 pages total)
and talks about many many writing systems (and describes them too). It
pretty much has just about every known living script (and extinct ones
like hieroglyphics).The price at amazon is $165.00 US. A bit expensive for
me now, but perhaps next year I can buy it. At least for now I can keep
checking it out from the library.



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