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Re: OT: Gender Bending Moro

From:Joseph Bridwell <zhosh@...>
Date:Sunday, April 3, 2005, 0:35
> Having just seen Sin City, and being too disturbed to fall asleep, > I decided to send an e-mail about something truly amazing our > class discovered about Moro today (Kordofanian language of > Sudan).
About all I can find on-line is that Moro is also called "Dhimorong", is/was in the Nile-Congo family. Supposedly SIL did a enthographic study of Moro speakers in 1971
> So, there you have it: A virtually undocumented language until > now strikes a blow for women's rights!
If you find out more, I'd be interested.
> ObConlang, I immediately thought of Laadan. When I went to > look it up, though, it appears that the site I was familiar with > has disappeared... That site actually had some of the grammar > online. The sites I can find now are a kind of history of the > construction of the language, and a blog.
I'd not looked at the sites for Láadan in quite some time. It does seem that they're down to the ones Ms. Elgin maintains. If you've any interested, we are going to be going some classes on the Laadan list on YAHOO starting in about 10 days.

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