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Re: Exotic languages (was Re: PimsleurApproach language courses)

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 16:08
Phillip Driscoll wrote:

> Isidora Zamora wrote: > > > >Now, Ojibwe, that's exotic. > > > > > >I have no idea. Got a URL? My knowledge of American languages is just > about > > >as poor as my knowledge of African languages, and I feel a compulsion
to
> > >better myself on both counts. > > > > I have no idea of how exotic the structure of Ojibwe may or may not be. > > About fifteen years ago, I came across a nineteenth century > textbook of Ojibwe in the library. I leafed through it, and as I > remember, it seemed rather agglutinative. >
There ought to be modern teaching materials available, but perhaps only in mimeo/xeroxed form...back in the 70s, a fellow grad-student was involved in putting such things together for the Ojibwe (-ay?) communities in Michigan and no doubt elsewhere. The name Richard Rhodes rings a bell, but I'm not totally sure..........