Re: Representing Boreanesian (was: Re: quantity triggered vs.

On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, And Rosta wrote:

> Maybe there should be some kind of confederation of minor insular
> languages, with representatives from the Maldives, the Andaman
> islands, from Sakhalin, from Boreaneasia and from Hesperonesia
> (comprising Livagia, Scungria, the Azores and in some classifications
> the Canaries), etc.. And at their congresses they could discuss their
> various neglected tongues, like Ainu, Andamanese, Boreanesian, and
> the numerous languages of the Boreatlantic group (comprising [IIRC -
> it's Paul Roser who has been working on this] Macro-Tsxaah, Macro-Livagian,
> and Guanche).
<crawling out of lurkerdom>

Although I'm supposed to be wrapping up a "Teach Yourself Vilani" textbook
-- oh, yeah, and allegedly studying something or another here -- I'm still
keeping simmering on the back burner my old project of a mutant North
Tungusic language, Sayat^1 (1), whose speakers theoretically live(d)
either in Kamchatka or Sakhalin -- so they/I'd be in this confederation
for sure.

(1) Not to be confused with Sayat^2, a distantly related language of
mutant Valley Girls on another planet.


Kenji Schwarz